I ran into this problem before and what I did to get around this (although not
pretty) was to use powershell as the default STAF shell on all of our windows
based servers by the following modification in the STAF.cfg:
#Customized for just Win based platforms to be powershell
SET DEFAULTSHELL "C:
As STAF is open source, so you can see for yourself what STAF does when
terminating a process using the WM_CLOSE option.
You can do a CVS browse of STAF source code. Go to
http://staf.cvs.sourceforge.net/staf/ and click on:
src
staf
stafif
win32
STAFProcess.cpp.
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Hi Eric,
Though I am not an STAF/Python/Windows expert, I have some experience of
handling some problems you have mentioned here. My two cents are here.
You have 3 options:
1. Send kill to your primary slave process. Trap this signal in that slave
process so that it can terminate all the spawned