[Python-Dev] About SSL tests (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Apr 4 07:10:02 CEST 2007

Another difference I believe is that TerminateProcess on Windows doesn't kill the tree of processes like kill would.

I believe you are wrong here: kill on Unix would not kill the tree of processes. Killing the parent process just does that: kill the parent process.

Killing process groups is an entirely different issue. It would be nice if subprocess also supported process groups (through the same-named POSIX concept on POSIX, and job objects on Win32), but that again is a different story.

Regards, Martin

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