Martin Panter added the comment: Even if we can’t agree on any behaviour change, I think it might be worth documenting how these functions behave on exceptions (interrupts) other than TimeoutExpired. Currently all I can find is “If the timeout expires, the child process will be killed and waited for.” I think this could be expanded to also say what happens if the parent is interrupted by a signal such as KeyboardInterrupt:
* Current behaviour: Immediately kill child (i.e. timeout expiry is not special) * Previous behaviour: Return without waiting for child, which will become a zombie * Mike’s proposal: Wait indefinitely for child without killing it, which could defeat the purpose of the timeout, especially if the child ignores or does not receive the same signal as the parent ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25942> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
