I. Myself wrote: > 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. > Note, however, that ctypes is planned to be a part of the 2.5 distribution, so while there may not be a platform-independent way to achieve your goals you will at leats be able to do so without external extensions.
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