On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM, John L. Stephens <lists.jksteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would have expected the daemonic children processes to terminate with the > parent process, regardless of how the parent process terminates, either > normally or forcefully.
As I understand it. If you forcibly kill the parent process with the KILL signal then any child procesases that were created become zombies. You also can't handle the KILL signal in your application (nor can the multiprocessing library) and so it therefore cannot cleanup and terminate any child processes in the normal way. cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
