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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=
=3D1
> > before p.start(), we can make the child die when the parent exits. =A0H=
owever,
> > the child does not die if the parent gets killed.
> > How can I make sure the child die when the parent gets killed?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> ChrisA

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