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Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2011-12-02 07:57 -0800
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Subject Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies
From 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com>
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On Friday, December 2, 2011 11:13:34 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Mihai Badoiu <mba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the multiprocessing module, on a Process p, by just doing p.daemon=1
> > before p.start(), we can make the child die when the parent exits.  However,
> > the child does not die if the parent gets killed.
> > How can I make sure the child die when the parent gets killed?
> 
> Are you in control of the killing of the parent? One easy way would be
> to catch the signal (say SIGINT) and initiate an orderly shutdown,
> signalling the children first.
> 
> ChrisA

Multiple thread supporting programming languages  in true OOP as Erlang and Python do not talk about POSIX signals.

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Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-03 02:13 +1100
  Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:57 -0800
  Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:57 -0800
    Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-03 03:14 +1100
      Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-02 08:27 -0800
      Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-02 08:27 -0800
        Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 11:50 -0800

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