I have an app (using 2.7) that processes requests. When a request of type "A" is received I need to start an external process.
When a request of type "B" is received I need to check and see if that external process has completed or not and then do some stuff depending on if it has or not. The issue I am running into is that when the external process is done is does not exit, it goes into a zombie state, e.g.: 1 Z root 13703 13644 0 80 0 - 0 exit 09:37 ? 00:00:00 [python] <defunct> Initially I was starting the process with Popen like this: DEVNULL = open(os.devnull, "wb") subprocess.Popen(cmd+args, stdin=DEVNULL, stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=DEVNULL, close_fds=True) I tried using os.spawn: os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, 'python', cmd+args) But still the process did not exit. Anyone know how I can get the external process to terminate when done? TIA! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
