[issue5115] Extend subprocess.kill to be able to kill process groups

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jan 21 01:29:32 CET 2010


STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> I suspect that on Windows, TerminateJobObject won't work 
> with a handle returned by CreateProcess.

TerminateJobObject works with CreateJobObject and AssignProcessToJobObject. The following code (from your patch) should call AssignProcessToJobObject (and CreateJobObject if there is no job yet):

+                    if not mswindows:
+                        os.setpgid(0, 0)

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nosy: +haypo

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