[Twisted-Python] Killing a process

Hi, I wondered last time what is the best way under Win32 to kill a process launched with: reactor.spawnProcess() os.kill() as documented here: http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html#l2h-1676 only works under Macintosh and Unix. Furthermore, spawnProcess() doesn't return any handle, process ID or anything to deal with. Any help or idea would be really appreciated, Igor.

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:50:22 +0200, Igor Kravtchenko <igor@mekensleep.com> wrote:
spawnProcess returns an IProcessTransport, which has a signalProcess method, which you can pass 'KILL' to end the process. Process termination with Twisted on Windows is unreliable, though, so whether or not it will work in your specific case is uncertain. Jean-Paul

On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
Process termination with Twisted on Windows is unreliable, though, so whether or not it will work in your specific case is uncertain.
I don't think that is true. TerminateProcess works fine to kill a single process. What isn't supported is killing a processes group, or asking a process politely to quit. On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Manlio Perillo wrote:
That shouldn't be necessary if you just want to kill dead the process. James

Igor Kravtchenko ha scritto:
Try with http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/pykill32/trunk/. It uses an hack (create a thread on the remote process) but it seems to work fine, at least with Python process and Twisted. Regards Manlio Perillo

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:50:22 +0200, Igor Kravtchenko <igor@mekensleep.com> wrote:
spawnProcess returns an IProcessTransport, which has a signalProcess method, which you can pass 'KILL' to end the process. Process termination with Twisted on Windows is unreliable, though, so whether or not it will work in your specific case is uncertain. Jean-Paul

On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
Process termination with Twisted on Windows is unreliable, though, so whether or not it will work in your specific case is uncertain.
I don't think that is true. TerminateProcess works fine to kill a single process. What isn't supported is killing a processes group, or asking a process politely to quit. On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Manlio Perillo wrote:
That shouldn't be necessary if you just want to kill dead the process. James

Igor Kravtchenko ha scritto:
Try with http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/pykill32/trunk/. It uses an hack (create a thread on the remote process) but it seems to work fine, at least with Python process and Twisted. Regards Manlio Perillo
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Igor Kravtchenko
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James Y Knight
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Jean-Paul Calderone
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Manlio Perillo