Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > Yeah, the mktexnam processes spawned by pdftex won't easily die. In > the python wrapper to handle timeouts and large logfiles, I had to do > a bit of work: change the process group of the texexec process to a > new one, let its children inherit that pgrp, and then do killpg on the > whole bunch. Without the process group trick, it's not easy to find > and kill the untamed processes.
IIRC, you can inhibit all the auto-mktex scripts with a setting in texmf.cnf or mktex.cnf (or something). If these programs are needed, the test was almost certainly failed anyway. Best, Taco _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
