>> 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).
I've tried this in a test C program... exactly what I need. Now if I could slip this between the fork and exec in subprocess.Popen() -- дамјан ( http://softver.org.mk/damjan/ ) In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
