end child process when parent dies (on Unix)

[Дамјан Георгиевски]

>> I'm starting a Unix tool with subprocess.Popen() from a python script
>> and I want the child to be killed when the parent (my script) ends
>> for whatever reason *including* if it gets killed by SIGKILL.
> 
> A Linux-specific solution is prctl(2).

I've tried this in a test C program... exactly what I need. Now if I 
could slip this between the fork and exec in subprocess.Popen()


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