New submission from Antoine Pitrou: subprocess.Popen() has both terminate() and kill() methods. Under Unix, the first sends SIGTERM and the second SIGKILL.
multiprocessing.Process() only has terminate(), which sends SIGTERM. It may be useful to add a kill() method to send SIGKILL (on Windows, kill() would be the same as terminate()). One possible use case is when the child process has redefined the SIGTERM handler to something that doesn't trigger an exit (or takes a long time to exit). Or if something non-interruptible is running... ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 297216 nosy: davin, pitrou priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Add multiprocessing.Process.kill() type: enhancement versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30794> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
