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On 02/01/2012 23:09, Jérôme wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> When a subprocess is running, it can be sent a signal with the send_signal
> method :
>
> process = Popen( args)
> process.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
>
> If the SIGINT is sent while the process has already finished, an error is
> raised :
>
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1457, in send_signal
>      os.kill(self.pid, sig)
> OSError: [Errno 3] Aucun processus de ce type
>
> To avoid this, I can check that the process is still alive :
>
> process = Popen( args)
> process.poll()
> if (None == process.returncode):
>      process.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
>
> It makes safer, but there is still an issue if the process ends between
> poll() and send_signal().
>
> What is the clean way to avoid this race condition ?
>
> Should I use try/except to catch the error or is there a more elegant way to
> go ?
>
I think that catching the exception is probably the most Pythonic way.