[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using the Python processing module. I've just run into a problem > though. Actually, it's a more general problem that isn't specific to > this module, but to the handling of Unix (Linux processes) in general. > Suppose for instance that for some reason or another, after forking > several child processes, the main process terminates or gets killed > (or segfaults or whatever) and the child processes are orphaned. Is > there any way to automatically arrange things so that they auto- > terminate or, in other words, is there a way to make the child > processes terminate when the parent terminates? > > Thank you.
Put a thread in the child which reads stdin, and make stdin connect to a pipe from the parent. When the parent terminates, the child will get a SIGPIPE error and raise an exception. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list