killing all subprocess childrens

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Astan Chee <astan.chee at al.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a piece of code that looks like this:
>
> import subprocess
> retcode = subprocess.call(["java","test","string"])
> print "Exited with retcode " + str(retcode)
>
> What I'm trying to do (and wondering if its possible) is to make sure that
> any children (and any descendants) of this process is killed when the main
> java process is killed (or dies).
> How do I do this in windows, linux and OSX?

Something /roughly/ like:

import os
import psutil # http://code.google.com/p/psutil/

# your piece of code goes here

myself = os.getpid()
for proc in psutil.process_iter():
    if proc.ppid == myself:
        proc.kill()

Cheers,
Chris
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