On 2015-05-31, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl>:
>
>> At the moment I have the following code:
>> os.chdir(directory)
>> for document in documents:
>> subprocess.Popen(['evince', document])
>>
>> With this I can open several documents at once. But there is no way to
>> know when those documents are going to be closed. This could/will lead
>> to zombie processes. (I run it on Linux.) What is the best solution to
>> circumvent this?
>>
>> I was thinking about putting all Popen instances in a list. And then
>> every five minutes walk through the list and check with poll if the
>> process has terminated. If it has it can be released from the list.
>> Of-course I need to synchronise those events. Is that a good way to do
>> it?
>
> If you don't care to know when child processes exit, you can simply
> ignore the SIGCHLD signal:
>
> import signal
> signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, signal.SIG_IGN)
>
> That will prevent zombies from appearing.
Bravo! I've been writing Unix apps for 30 years, and I did not know
that. Is this something recent[1], or have I somehow managed to avoid
this useful bit of info for that long?
[1] "Recent" of course being rather subjective and highly
age-dependent.
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