In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Micah Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[... re problem killing children of shell script ...] > > Is there any way to enable Python's subprocess module to do (implicit?) > > group setup to ease killing of all children? If not, is it a reasonable > > RFE? > > Not as far as I know. It might be a reasonable request in suitable > dialects of Unix-like OSes, though. A setpgrp call (in the callback > which you can request Popen to perform, after it forks and before it > execs) might suffice... except that you can't rely on children process > not to setpgrp's themselves, can you?! I bet that wouldn't be a problem, though. subprocess.Popen constructor takes a preexec_fn parameter that looks like it might be a suitable place to try this. (Interesting that it's a function parameter, not a method to be overridden by a subclass.) Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
