[Scons-users] Cleaning up a background process

[Bill Deegan]

It should work. It's been the proscribed method for some time, and other
users have discussed using it as recently as early march.

Which version of SCons/Python and what platform?

-Bill

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Brian Cody <brian.j.cody at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I have an issue that I pushed aside several months ago that I now need to
> revisit.
>
> A few build steps require a background process to be running. If anything
> goes wrong during the build, that background process needs to be killed.
> Also if nothing goes wrong during the build, the process must be killed on
> completion. It's launched with an action now. There seems to be no
> consistent way to be able to tell when all targets that would use the
> process are completed. Instead, I was thinking to register with atexit on
> spawning the process to hook in the cleanup function.
>
> I get that it isn't directly supported but I'm not sure why it isn't
> working. The atexit._exithandlers list looks good before sys.exit is called
> in Script/Main.py, but the handlers just aren't called.
>
> Is there a known fix for atexit when combined with SCons? Is there any
> other sort of hook that I may be missing? Or a completely new suggestion?
>
> Thank you
>
> -Brian
>
>
>
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