[Python-Dev] About SSL tests

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/3/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> > I'd be willing to look at adding it, if the group thinks it's the right
> > thing to do.
>
> I like the idea and I'm proposing to add two more methods to subprocess
> Popen.
>
> class Popen(...):
>     ...
>     def signal(self, signal):
>         """Send a signal to the process (UNIX only)
>
>         signal is constant from the signal module
>         """
>
>     def terminate(self, force=False):
>         """Terminate the process
>
>         On UNIX terminate(False) is equivalent to signal(SIGTERM) and
>         terminate(True) to signal(SIGKILL).
>
>         On Windows ... (does Windows support a forced terminate?)
>         """

Another difference I believe is that TerminateProcess on Windows
doesn't kill the tree of processes like kill would.  It would be nice
if Popen.terminate() did the same thing on both Unix and Windows.  (I
assume that would mean making *all* the appropriate TerminateProcess
calls.)

Steve
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