Is this a bug in multiprocessing or in my script?

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 16:50:03 EDT 2009


On Aug 5, 4:41 pm, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
> On 5 Aug, 22:28, Jesse Noller <jnol... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://bugs.python.org/issue6653
>
> > In the future please use the bug tracker to file and track bugs with,
> > so things are not as lossy.
>
> Ok, sorry :)
>
> Also see Piet's comment here. He has a valid case against sys.exit in
> some cases. Thus it appears that both ways of shutting down child
> processes might be dangerous: If we don't want buffers to flush we
> have to use os._exit. If we want clean-up code to execute we have to
> use sys.exit. If we want both we are screwed. :(

Comments around this bug should go in the bug report - again, so we
don't loose them. I do not personally subscribe to this group , so
it's very easy to miss things.

jesse



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