On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:26:50PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
As Chris says, any reason to be using kill_subprocess at all?
Actually as Chris *didn't* say, I was reading that wrong :-) Anyway, I'd try deleting the handle. AFAIK Python will run the destructor immediately, and the path taken via guestfs_close certainly kills the subprocess: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=src/guestfs.c;h=8b7ab4d771... If you're really worried about the subprocess staying around, then grab the PID (g.get_pid) and kill the process *after* deleting the handle. (This is way outside the scope of the API ...) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top