[Skip Montanaro] > Posix.kill() wants a pid. Can't os.kill() want anything it wants? ;-) Yes. On Windows it wants a handle, because that's what spawn*() returns on Windows. But, again, Windows processes aren't intended to be killed externally. > In particular, can't it test its arguments to see if it got a handle > or a pid then "Do The Right Thing" (tm Spike Lee I think)? No, process handles and process ids are both just "little integers" on Windows. > ... > For the python-dev types not on the spambayes list, I do have an > application in mind. In my environment I need to tunnel SB's > pop3proxy app through an ssh connection. Starting and stopping > it works okay on my MacOSX system, and I presume it will under other > Unix-based systems. I began thinking about whether this would port > to other platforms and noticed that os.kill() is only supported under > Unix. Why do you need to kill a process externally? For example, why can't you make "please stop now" a part of the protocol, so that a process can terminate itself gracefully when told to? > It may turn out that my desire is moot if ssh can't be run under > Windows anyway. http://www.python.org/dev/devfaq.html#w1
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