Eric Pruitt wrote: > In my GSoC project, I have implemented asnychronous I/O in > subprocess.Popen. Since the read/write operations are asynchronous, the > program may have already exited by the time one calls the asyncread > function I have implemented. While it returns the data just fine, I have > come across an issue with the TerminateProcess function in Windows: if > the program has already exited, when subprocess.Popen.Terminate calls > the Windows built-in "TerminateProcess" function, an "access denied" > error will occur. Should I just make it so that this exception is simply > ignored or perform some kind of check to see if the process exists > beforehand? If the latter, I have been unable to find a way to do so, to > my liking at least. The solutions I saw would require code that seems a > bit excessive to me.
I'm pretty sure we already ignore some spurious error messages in cases like calling flush() in file.close(). I would suggest checking what the io module does in such cases and see what kind of precedent it sets. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
