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Re: Defunct when using subprocess.Pope n

En Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:04:46 -0300, Gordon Maria
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I'm running a GUI in python which is able to launch a separate python
process
that will run forever. In rare cases I will want to kill the launched
process.
Every time I do so, I end up with the process as defunct. Can anybody
help me
clean it up in a nice way?

On request from GUI I do the following:
os.kill(process .pid,9)

FYI, it is all running on Linux.
You should call os.waitpid() after killing the child process, to let the
OS free the resources allocated to it.

--
Gabriel Genellina

Jul 30 '08 #1
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:56:28 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
You should call os.waitpid() after killing the child process, to let the
OS free the resources allocated to it.
The subprocess.Pope n object supports a 'wait' method directly.
Jul 30 '08 #2

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