end child process when parent dies (on Unix)

[Дамјан Георгиевски]

Hi all,
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.

For normal situations I can send a signal to the pid of the Popen object.
But not if the script ends abnormally (SIGKILL etc).

AFAIK there were some tricks with process leaders and stuff like that so if 
someone remembers the exact semantics of that could refresh my memory.



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