Hi.
My little Python script creates some child-processes depending on how much
command line options were given:
for myvalue in sys.argv[1:]:
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0:
do_something() # placeholder for operations
break
Now I do some difficult things inside each child process (above: function
do_something). These operations may take a long time.
How can I make it sure that every child-process terminates after x senconds
(wether it has finished or not)?
I don't know how to force a child-process to kill itself after x seconds. I
also don't know how to force a main process (parent) to kill a child-process
after x seconds.
I searched for something like:
for myvalue in sys.argv[1:]:
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0:
os.exit(timeout)
do_something() # placeholder for operations
break
But there was nothing like this... Do you have an answer to my question???
Thank you.
Best regards
Markus Franz