[Tim] >> ... >> 2. The buildbot code tries to kill the process itself. It appears (to judge >> from the buildbot messges) that this never works on Windows. >> >> 3. For reasons that are still unknown, python_d.exe keeps running, >> and forever.
[Martin] > It's actually not too surprising that python_d.exe keeps running. No, what's surprising is that it keeps running _forever_. This isn't Unix, and, e.g., a defunct child process doesn't sit around waiting for its parent to reap it. Why doesn't the leftover python_d.exe complete running the test suite, and then go away all by itself? It doesn't, no matter how long you wait. That's the mystery to me. > The buildbot has a process handle for the cmd.exe process that runs > test.bat. python_d.exe is only a child process of process. So killing > cmd.exe wouldn't help, even if it worked. It suppose it's possible that killing cmd.exe actually did work, but the buildbot code misreports the outcome, and python_d.exe "runs forever" because it's blocked waiting on some resource (console I/O handle?) it inherited from its (no longer there) parent process. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
