Closing pipes

Tom Chance tomchance at gmx.net
Sun Mar 16 17:35:12 EST 2003


> Ah, brilliant, I've got Popen3 working, and I can get the pid. But for
> some reason I can't kill the process! I've tried doing "kill(pid,
> signal.SIGKILL)" and "kill(pid, 0)", but neither work. I've tried closing
> the pipe first with "child.fromchild.close()", and then killing, and that
> doesn't work either. Kill just fails to kill the process.
> 
> Is there any reason/solution for this?

Oh no, ignore me, it was killing the processes, and just leaving zombies in
the process table which I've cleanedup with os.waitpid()

:)

Tom




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