Re: [Jython-dev] subprocess.Popen(): terminate() exception

[Jim B. <jim...@py...>]

Sounds like a great plan for beta 4!

- Jim


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Pekka Klärck <pe...@ik...> wrote:

> 2014-05-12 0:57 GMT+03:00 Michael Büsch <m...@bu...>:
> >
> > I'm using latest jython hg sources (2.7).
> > My code uses subprocess.Popen() and eventually calls terminate() on the
> object.
> > This fails with the following exception:
> >
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/home/mb/develop/git/awlsim/./tests/../awlsimcli", line 424, in
> <module>
> >>     sys.exit(main())
> >>   File "/home/mb/develop/git/awlsim/./tests/../awlsimcli", line 420, in
> main
> >>     return runWithServerBackend(inputFile)
> >>   File "/home/mb/develop/git/awlsim/./tests/../awlsimcli", line 274, in
> runWithServerBackend
> >>     client.shutdown()
> >>   File "/home/mb/develop/git/awlsim/awlsim/coreserver/client.py", line
> 115, in shutdown
> >>     self.serverProcess.terminate()
> >>   File "/home/mb/develop/hg/jython/dist/Lib/subprocess.py", line 1399,
> in terminate
> >>     _subprocess.TerminateProcess(self._handle, 1)
> >> NameError: global name '_subprocess' is not defined
> >
> > This looks like a bug in the subprocess module.
>
> Neither 'terminate' nor 'kill' nor 'send_signal' are currently
> supported by Jython, and I would assume that possible Popen
> configuration parameters added in Python 2.6 or 2.7 aren't supported
> either. I have understood that supporting everything CPython does is
> problematic due to JVM limitations (e.g. signals aren't officially
> supported), but it ought to be possible to implement at least 'kill'
> by just terminating the started process via the Java API. With CPython
> 'terminate' sends SIGTERM signal on posix, so if signals aren't
> supported implementing it that way is not possible. Implementing
> 'terminate' as an alias for 'kill', like CPython does on Windows,
> ought to be a good enough workaround.
>
> I would love to see at least 'kill' and 'terminate' included into
> Jython 2.7. Anyone interested to work with me getting them
> implemented?
>
> Cheers,
>     .peke
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