I'm writing a program which has to execute a command, get its output
and show it on a treeview.
This command runs for a very long time.
I want to end the execution of the command when the user closes my
application.
Right now I'm using an object my_child of type subprocess.Pope n to
execute the command, inside a thread with an infinite loop where we
constantly ask for its output.
To end the program when the user closes the application, I send a
SIGTERM to the process with pid my_child.pid using os.kill. But I also
have to send a SIGTERM to my_child.pid + 1 because my_child.pid is the
pid of /bin/sh -c which is the one which calls the command, because
when I try to run Popen with shell=False, it sends an exception and
says the file or directory doesn't exist.
Anyone knows of a better way to close the command than using a
SIGTERM? I just can't help myself thinking this is an ugly dirty hack.
2  9159 
A.T.Hofkamp <ha*@se-162.se.wtb.tue. nlwrote:
In principle, you should only kill your own child processes, your child process
should handle its own childs (your grant child processes). SIGTERM is one way.
Another solution often adopted is to close the stdin of the child.
That is a good idea.
You could also make the parent a process group leader and kill the
process group. You'll get the kill signal too which you'll need to
ignore. That is how the shell keeps track of things IIRC.
Read man setpgid, getpgid should be helful. There are equivalent
commands in os, ie os.setpgid and os.getpgid.
--
Nick Craig-Wood <ni**@craig-wood.com-- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick
On Jun 29, 6:36 pm, revenan...@hotm ail.com wrote:
I'm writing a program which has to execute a command, get its output
and show it on a treeview.
This command runs for a very long time.
I want to end the execution of the command when the user closes my
application.
Right now I'm using an object my_child of type subprocess.Pope n to
execute the command, inside a thread with an infinite loop where we
constantly ask for its output.
To end the program when the user closes the application, I send a
SIGTERM to the process with pid my_child.pid using os.kill. But I also
have to send a SIGTERM to my_child.pid + 1 because my_child.pid is the
pid of /bin/sh -c which is the one which calls the command, because
when I try to run Popen with shell=False, it sends an exception and
says the file or directory doesn't exist.
Anyone knows of a better way to close the command than using a
SIGTERM? I just can't help myself thinking this is an ugly dirty hack.
As nick pointed out use process group's .
I use the "preexec_fn " keyword argument to Popen and "os.setsid( )"
call's side effect
to make process groups and then os.killpg() to send the signal to
process groups.
child = Popen( cmd , preexec_fn = os.setsid )
os.killpg( child.pid,signa l.SIGINT)
Regards
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