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Re: Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal

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Am 03.01.2012 02:19, schrieb Adam Skutt:
> On Jan 2, 6:09 pm, Jérôme<jer...@jolimont.fr>  wrote:
>> What is the clean way to avoid this race condition ?
>
> The fundamental race condition cannot be removed nor avoided. Ideally,
> avoid the need to send the subprocess a signal in the first place.  If
> it cannot be avoided, then trap the exception.

Yes, it can be avoided, that's what the default SIGCHLD-handling 
(keeping the process as a zombie until it's explicitly collected by a 
wait*()) is for, which forces the PID not to be reused by the operating 
system until the parent has acknowledged (by actively calling wait*()) 
that the child has terminated.

-- 
--- Heiko.

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Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal Jérôme <jerome@jolimont.fr> - 2012-01-03 00:09 +0100
  Re: Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 17:19 -0800
    Re: Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-03 13:31 +0100
      Re: Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2012-01-03 05:40 -0800
        Re: Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-03 14:56 +0100

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