Serge Orlov wrote: > I. Myself wrote: > >> Suppose we spawn a child process with Popen. I'm thinking of an >> executable file, like a compiled C program. >> Suppose it is supposed to run for one minute, but it just keeps going >> and going. Does Python have any way to kill it? >> >> This is not hypothetical; I'm doing it now, and it's working pretty >> well, but I would like to be able to handle this run-on condition. I'm >> using Windows 2000, but I want my program to be portable to linux. >> > > On linux it's pretty easy to do, just setup alarm signal. On windows > it's not so trivial to the point you cannot do it using python.org > distribution, you will need to poke in low level C API using win32 > extensions or ctypes. AFAIK twisted package <http://twistedmatrix.com> > has some code to help you. Also take a look at buildbot sources > <http://buildbot.sf.net> that uses twisted. Buildbot has the same > problem as you have, it needs to kill run away or non-responding > processes. > That is bad news. Thanks anyway; bad news is better than no news.
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