subprocess leaves child living

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <lobais at gmail.com> wrote:
>  But you can't ever catch sigkill.
>  Isn't there a way to make sure the os kills the childprocess when the 
>  parrent dies?

Not as far as I know.

If you've got a pipe open to the child then killing the parent should
deliver SIGPIPE to the child which may (or may not) kill it.  At least
it got some sort of notification.

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