subprocess leaves child living

[Thomas Dybdahl Ahle]

Den Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:06:15 -0700 skrev Rob Wolfe:

> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote:
> 
>> Problem is - I can't do that when I get killed. Isn't it possible to
>> open processes in such a way like terminals? If I kill the terminal,
>> everything open in it will die too.
> 
> On POSIX platform you can use signals and ``os.kill`` function. Fo
> example:
> 
> <code>
> import os, signal
> from subprocess import Popen
> from time import sleep
> 
> def handler(signum, frame):
>     print 'Signal handler called'
>     raise KeyboardInterrupt
> 
> signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, handler)
> 
> try:
>     popen = Popen(["ping", "google.com"]) try:
>         sleep(100)
>     except KeyboardInterrupt:
>         pass
> finally:
>     if popen.poll() is None:
>         print "killing process: %d" % popen.pid os.kill(popen.pid,
>         signal.SIGTERM)
> </code>

But you can't ever catch sigkill.
Isn't there a way to make sure the os kills the childprocess when the 
parrent dies?