subprocess hangs on reading stdout

[Minesh Patel]

>
> Any ideas? comments on code welcome also.

Here's something that I would probably do, there may be better ways.
This only works on python2.6 for the terminate() method.


import signal
import subprocess

def timeout_handler(signum, frame):
    print "About to kill process"
    p.terminate()

for machine_name in self.alive:
    cmd = ["/bin/remsh", machine_name, 'ps -flu %s' % uid]
    signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, timeout_handler)
    signal.alarm(1)
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    (stdout, stderr) = p.communicate()
    signal.alarm(0)
    if stdout:
       print stdout
    elif stderr:
       print stderr



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Thanks,
--Minesh