On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to use the multiprocessing.Pool object to run multiple tasks in > separate processes. > > The problem is that I want to call an external C function (from a > shared library, with help from ctypes) and this function tends to > crash (SIGSEGV,SIGFPE,etc.) on certain data sets (the purpose of this > thing is to test the behavior of the function and see when it > crashes). > > My question is if the Pool object is able to spawn a new process in > place of the crashed one and resume operation. I killed with SIGSEGV > the subprocesses and the script locked up :( > > Any ideas/alternatives? >
You're going to want to use a custom pool, not the built in pool. In your custom pool, you'll need to capture the signals/errors you want and handle them accordingly. The built in pool was not designed for your use case. -jesse -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
