Github user Parth-Brahmbhatt commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-storm/pull/143#issuecomment-46333200
Not sure why a bug in the worker would cause leaked processes even when we
already have a shutdown hook in workers that should kill it in a second but I
am no expert on unix signal processing so I will trust you on that. Added the
supervisor sequence to do what you have proposed.
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