end child process when parent dies (on Unix)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Дамјан Георгиевски wrote:

> I'm starting a Unix tool with subprocess.Popen() from a python script
> and I want the child to be killed when the parent (my script) ends for
> whatever reason *including* if it gets killed by SIGKILL.

A Linux-specific solution is prctl(2).