Want to monitor process..

[Peter Hansen]

Stephen wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, my own applications seem to crash as opposed to
> shutdown normally, so it's probably not going to help me. From the
> library reference ~
> "Note: the functions registered via this module are not called when
> the program is killed by a signal, when a Python fatal internal error
> is detected, or when os._exit() is called. "

Yikes!  "Crash"?  Do you really mean they crash the Python interpreter,
or do you mean they exit with an exception?

If the former, you've got seriously problems, I agree.

If the latter, just wrap the highest level code with a try/finally
or try/except and put code in to ensure the child processes are
properly terminated.  Simple, clean, safe.

My Python programs *never* crash (as in kill the interpreter)
but maybe that's just me... I doubt it.

-Peter