signal through popen2

[Michael Hudson]

llchen223 at hotmail.com (Lei Chen) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to send a CTRL-C on a process opened by popen2.  Is
> this possible?

Not as such, as you don't know it's PID.  You could try:

def popen2pid(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
    inst = Popen3(cmd, 0, bufsize)
    return inst.fromchild, inst.tochild, inst.pid

(Assuming unixoid systems).

There might be some ioctl for finding out which process owns the other
end of a pipe, but I'm not sure.

Cheers,
M.

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