I am trying to debug my program that launch processes to run a function to copy data between hosts located really far away from each other. The end of my function are in the orders.py and mergedirs.py.
>From this point onwards, in is python code. The problem is that this code >hangs in the last instruction "forking()", instead of my program continue. The call of my function were made with: outputs = parmap(mergeDirs, args). This is my parmap function. It seems that the function mergeDirs ends, but the process does not join. I checked that the mergeDirs is working properly, because I ran the code without processes, and it works fine. I don't know what is happening. How can I debug this problem? def parmap(f, X): pipe = [Pipe() for x in X] # 2 - what is happening with the tuples (c,x) and (p, c)? proc = [Process(target=spawn(f), args=(c, x)) for x, (p, c) in zip(X, pipe)] #[p.start() for p in proc] for p in proc: print("Spawn") p.start() #[p.join() for p in proc] for p in proc: print("Joining") p.join() return [p.recv() for (p, c) in pipe] Copy data time: 104.863273859 orders.py(99): return cluster mergedirs.py(48): return (new_included, command, poutput) spawn.py(7): pipe.close() process.py(259): exitcode = 0 process.py(261): util._exit_function() --- modulename: util, funcname: _exit_function util.py(303): info('process shutting down') --- modulename: util, funcname: info util.py(77): if _logger: util.py(304): debug('running all "atexit" finalizers with priority >= 0') --- modulename: util, funcname: debug util.py(73): if _logger: util.py(305): _run_finalizers(0) --- modulename: util, funcname: _run_finalizers util.py(257): if _finalizer_registry is None: util.py(263): if minpriority is None: util.py(266): f = lambda p : p[0][0] is not None and p[0][0] >= minpriority util.py(268): items = [x for x in _finalizer_registry.items() if f(x)] util.py(269): items.sort(reverse=True) util.py(271): for key, finalizer in items: util.py(279): if minpriority is None: util.py(307): if current_process() is not None: --- modulename: process, funcname: current_process process.py(63): return _current_process util.py(318): for p in active_children(): --- modulename: process, funcname: active_children process.py(69): _cleanup() --- modulename: process, funcname: _cleanup process.py(78): for p in list(_current_process._children): process.py(70): return list(_current_process._children) util.py(323): for p in active_children(): --- modulename: process, funcname: active_children process.py(69): _cleanup() --- modulename: process, funcname: _cleanup process.py(78): for p in list(_current_process._children): process.py(70): return list(_current_process._children) util.py(327): debug('running the remaining "atexit" finalizers') --- modulename: util, funcname: debug util.py(73): if _logger: util.py(328): _run_finalizers() --- modulename: util, funcname: _run_finalizers util.py(257): if _finalizer_registry is None: util.py(263): if minpriority is None: util.py(264): f = lambda p : p[0][0] is not None util.py(268): items = [x for x in _finalizer_registry.items() if f(x)] util.py(269): items.sort(reverse=True) util.py(271): for key, finalizer in items: util.py(279): if minpriority is None: util.py(280): _finalizer_registry.clear() process.py(278): util.info('process exiting with exitcode %d' % exitcode) --- modulename: util, funcname: info util.py(77): if _logger: process.py(279): return exitcode forking.py(127): sys.stdout.flush() forking.py(128): sys.stderr.flush() forking.py(129): os._exit(code) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list