Greg Brockman <g...@ksplice.com> added the comment: Started looking at your patch. It seems to behave reasonably, although it still doesn't catch all of the failure cases. In particular, as you note, crashed jobs won't be noticed until the pool shuts down... but if you make a blocking call such as in the following program, you'll get a hang: """ #!/usr/bin/env python import multiprocessing, os, signal def foo(x): os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGKILL) multiprocessing.Pool(1).apply(foo, [1]) """
The tests also occasionally hang in e.g. test_job_killed_by_signal (__main__.WithProcessesTestPoolSupervisor) ... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9205> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com