Steve Holden wrote: > I. Myself wrote: >> Serge Orlov wrote: >> >>> I. Myself wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Suppose we spawn a child process with Popen. I'm thinking of an >>>> executable file, like a compiled C program. >>>> Suppose it is supposed to run for one minute, but it just keeps going >>>> and going. Does Python have any way to kill it? >>>> >>>> This is not hypothetical; I'm doing it now, and it's working pretty >>>> well, but I would like to be able to handle this run-on condition. >>>> I'm >>>> using Windows 2000, but I want my program to be portable to linux. >>>> >>> >>> On linux it's pretty easy to do, just setup alarm signal. On windows >>> it's not so trivial to the point you cannot do it using python.org >>> distribution, you will need to poke in low level C API using win32 >>> extensions or ctypes. AFAIK twisted package <http://twistedmatrix.com> >>> has some code to help you. Also take a look at buildbot sources >>> <http://buildbot.sf.net> that uses twisted. Buildbot has the same >>> problem as you have, it needs to kill run away or non-responding >>> processes. >>> >> >> That is bad news. Thanks anyway; bad news is better than no news. >> > Note, however, that ctypes is planned to be a part of the 2.5 > distribution, so while there may not be a platform-independent way to > achieve your goals you will at leats be able to do so without external > extensions. I'm an intermediate Python programmer. Can you explain to me how ctypes will let me kill a child process?
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