[Python-Dev] windows buildbot failures

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 2. The buildbot code tries to kill the process itself.  It appears (to judge
>    from the buildbot messges) that this never works on Windows.
> 
> 3. For reasons that are still unknown, python_d.exe keeps running,
>    and forever.

It's actually not too surprising that python_d.exe keeps running. The
buildbot has a process handle for the cmd.exe process that runs
test.bat. python_d.exe is only a child process of process. So killing
cmd.exe wouldn't help, even if it worked.

Regards,
Martin