Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Target-2.8.2 bwic
New issue 1541 by pekka.klarck: Process: `Terminate Process` should
automatically kill process that does not terminate
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1541
Currently `Terminate Process` by default tries to terminate the process
gracefully, but can be configured to forcefully kill it. The latter option
is needed with badly behaving process that cannot be terminated gracefully.
The problem with this approach is that there is no guarantee is the process
actually stopped when `kill` option is not used.
To make sure that the process ends, we decided to enhance this keyword so
that it automatically kills processes that are not terminated. To give the
process time for clean-up activities, we decided to wait maximum 5 seconds
for it to end. It is obviously still possible to use `kill` to forcefully
kill the process right away.
This change is backwards incompatible in cases where someone wanted to just
send terminate signal to the process and didn't actually want it to stop.
It's unlikely this is common, and the new `Send Signal To Process` keyword
(issue 1515) makes it possible to explicitly send the signal.
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