uranusjr commented on code in PR #23872:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/23872#discussion_r881266785


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airflow/utils/process_utils.py:
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@@ -311,3 +311,22 @@ def check_if_pidfile_process_is_running(pid_file: str, 
process_name: str):
         except psutil.NoSuchProcess:
             # If process is dead remove the pidfile
             pid_lock_file.break_lock()
+
+
+def set_new_process_group() -> bool:
+    """
+    Tries to set current process to a new process group
+    That makes it easy to kill all sub-process of this at the OS-level, rather 
than having
+    to iterate the child processes.
+
+    If current process spawn by system call ``exec()`` than keep current 
process group
+
+    Returns True if new process group created otherwise False
+    """
+
+    if os.getpid() == os.getsid(0):
+        # If PID = SID than process a session leader, and it is not possible 
to change process group
+        return False

Review Comment:
   When would this return value be useful? It is currently only used in tests, 
but checking `os.setpgid`’s call count does the same thing.



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