On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Aahz <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Astan Chee <[email protected]> wrote: >>Chris Rebert wrote: >>> >>> import os >>> import psutil # http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ >>> >>> # your piece of code goes here >>> >>> myself = os.getpid() >>> for proc in psutil.process_iter(): >> >>Is there a way to do this without psutil or installing any external >>modules or doing it from python2.5? > > Lightly edited code I wrote yesterday: > > cmd = ['ps', '-eo', 'pid,ppid'] > output = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] > output = output.split('\n')[1:] # skip the header > for row in output: > if not row: > continue > child_pid, parent_pid = row.split() > if parent_pid == str(pid): > child_pid = int(child_pid) > os.kill(child_pid, signal.SIGUSR1)
Although this doesn't meet the OP's Windows-compatibility requirement. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
