Rob Shortt wrote:
> Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> And about the signals: it's _not_ a Python problem. Sometimes Python
>> doesn't get the signal, but the main problem is killing child apps. If
>> Python starts a child, it's gets the id. If this child is using
>> threads, 'kill' on the uid may not kill everything. But you can use
>> the killall function in util to kill e.g. all mencoder with foo.avi in
>> the parameter list.
>
> Python is blocking almost all of the signals to child processes (which
> are started inside threads for Freevo?). The (or one of the) only
> signal that will get through is KILL (-9). This is _very_ bad! So we
> have os.system('kill -9 ..') stuff all over the place. These child
> processes will not clean up after themselves. If someone's mencoder
> process is saving an avi file and we stop it, it won't get
> indexed... that's just one example. Also if someone is using the
> runtime, and their libc is different, it is possible that and
> os.system() calls will fail unless they include something like the old
> runapp command that will use the runtime's preloaded libraries.
IIRC I sent -15 with the util killall function to mplayer. I will
check that later.
Dischi
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