socket's strange behavior with subprocesses

[Colin Brown]

"Jane Austine" <janeaustine50 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Colin Brown" <cbrown at metservice.com> wrote in message
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> I tried win32 API primitives for creating subprocesses: win32all's
> CreateProcess. I used the Process class in winprocess.py in the
> "demos" directory. However, it didn't work with sockets perfectly.
>
> Say, a socket server python script is launched via CreateProcess. It
> then launches sub-processes. And I kill(via TerminateProcess) the
> socket server process. The subprocesses remain alive(as expected). I
> try to connect to the 'dead server port'. I expect almost immediate
> "connect refused" error, but it doesn't come up until the subprocesses
> are all gone and client hangs forever.
>
> Jane

If I am interpreting what you are saying here correctly you have:

Main_process
    => [create_process]
        => Sub_process1
                socket_server_connection
                subprocess2 (of subprocess1) started

Sub_process1 terminated, but socket connection held until subprocess2
terminated.

This is what I would expect based on my findings. Subprocess2 has inherited
the socket handle when it was created (assuming you used os.system,
os.spawn* or os.popen*). You would have to use the correct incantation of
create_process to launch subprocess2.

I have attached the code I used in place of os.system.

Colin

--[Win32.py]---------------------------------------------------------------
# perform equivalent of os.system without open file handles

import win32process,win32event

def system(cmd):
    handles = win32process.CreateProcess \
 (None,cmd,None,None,0,0,None,None,win32process.STARTUPINFO())
    status = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(handles[0],win32event.INFINITE)
    if status == win32event.WAIT_ABANDONED:
        raise 'win32.system WAIT_ABANDONED'
    elif status == win32event.WAIT_FAILED:
        raise 'win32.system WAIT_FAILED'
    elif status == win32event.WAIT_IO_COMPLETION:
        raise 'win32.system WAIT_IO_COMPLETION'
    elif status == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0:
        pass
    elif status == win32event.WAIT_TIMEOUT:
        raise 'win32.system WAIT_TIMEOUT'
    else:
        raise 'win32.system - unknown event status = '+str(status)