On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: >>> 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()
preexec_fn, perhaps? http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#using-the-subprocess-module -Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
