how to terminate a process?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Wong,

>     I am developing two app on Windows, one is a GUI using wxPython and
>    the other is like a daemon process. The GUI app will have a start/stop
>    button to control the excution of the daemon. While I know how to use
>    os.popen2() to start my daemon, I can't figure out a way to stop it
>    'nicely'... Is there anything that I can do?
You can catch signals on your daemon process and either hack some win32
code (using PostMessage I think) to send signal, or you can use pskill
from sysinternall or cygwins kill to send signals.

HTH.
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