Den Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:01:44 +0200 skrev Rob Wolfe: > Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> But you can't ever catch sigkill. > > There is no protection against sigkill. > >> Isn't there a way to make sure the os kills the childprocess when the >> parrent dies? > > If the parent dies suddenly without any notification childprocesses > become zombies and there is no way to avoid that.
If I call "kill -9 pythonpid" on the python code you posted earlier, the terminal running the script will continue pinging forever. If it was a harder program like a chessengine or such, it would continue consuming 100% cpu time. Zombies would be fine to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
