[Buildbot-devel] Getting buildbot to kill all subprocesses

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:52:44 -0500
Chris AtLee <chris at atlee.ca> wrote:

> buildbot should probably be doing something like setpgrp when it
> starts a process so that the entire process group can be killed
> properly.

I think it already does that (that would be in twisted though, not in
buildbot itself, IIRC).

But does that help here?  The OP is starting the sleeps *in the
background*, that's what the & does.  If the shell has job control then
that means the sleeps are in a different pg.

Ian