[Twisted-Python] What is the "Twisted" way to kill stuck childprocess

[Schneider, Michael]

Thank you,

I just found the win32eventreactor code.

Sorry to ask such a simple question,should I
create a process protocol to use with the
win32 reactor with spawnProcess?


Thanks,
Mike




 
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Michael Schneider
Senior Software Engineering Consultant
UGS PLM Solutions - an EDS Company
 
"The Greatest Performance Improvement Is the transitioning from a non-working state to the working state"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: twisted-python-admin at twistedmatrix.com
> [mailto:twisted-python-admin at twistedmatrix.com]On Behalf Of Glyph
> Lefkowitz
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:21 PM
> To: twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com
> Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] What is the "Twisted" way to kill stuck
> childprocess
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:50, Jp Calderone wrote:
> 
> >   I'm not certain of the status of spawnProcess on Windows. 
>  If it really
> > doesn't work, I suppose popen2 is about all you can do.
> > 
> >   Since you're mainly developing on Windows, I doubt I can 
> offer much more
> > assistance, having never written any multiprocess Windows apps.
> > 
> >   If popen2 lets you get PIDs on Windows, and os.kill() 
> works with those
> > PIDs on Windows, I think you should still be able to 
> timeout processes
> > fairly easily.  If they don't, maybe someone with more 
> Windows experience
> > can chime in.
> 
> If you want to use spawnProcess on windows, you must use the win32
> reactor.  This has some limiting effects (but then, so does windows
> itself).  Don't use popen2 with Twisted - the SIGCHLD handler that
> twistd installs will cause conflicts and crashes.
> 
> 
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