Your patch is in trunk. Can you please check it? Thank you Alvaro. On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 07:05:57 UTC-6, Álvaro José Iradier wrote: > > Proposition: > > I have made a small proposed patch to newcron.py, in order to keep a list > of cron subprocesses and send a terminate signal when web2py exists. See > attached newcron.py.diff. A lock should be added when accessing the > _cron_subprocs list, to avoid thread concurrency. > > Also, I noticed that newcron.stopcron() is called when closing the widget > window if the web server was started. But if the web server was not > started, it will not be called, which is strange, as cron is started before > the web server. The second attached patch (widget.py.diff) fixes this to > call newcron.stopcron() on exit. > > I guess same fix should be applied for winservice.py, and similar for the > --nogui case. > > What do you think about this proposed changes? > > Thanks. > > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Álvaro José Iradier > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> on my web2py application on windows, I have a cron task that runs for a >> long time. I noticed a new process is spawned for every cron job.. If the >> main web2py process exists (for example if I try to terminate the process, >> or close the web2py window), it will not exit until the cron process is >> finished (is it waiting for the child processes to finish?). Am I right, or >> do I get something wrong? >> >> So my question is, Is there a way to detect from the cron process that >> the main web2py process is exiting, in order to finish inmediately, but >> clean? I thought of using the getppid() from the cron process for getting >> the parent process id, but it is not available on windows. Could the main >> web2py process send a "terminate" or "interrupt" signal or similar to the >> still running cron processes? This way the process would be killed, or >> could trap the signal and exit cleanly. >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/NzETk-m6Liw/unsubscribe?hl=en. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > (:=================================:) > Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - [email protected] <javascript:> >
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