view tests/killdaemons.py @ 9161:e8b653a4b8da

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This exposed a bug in rst2man where it neglects to escape a literal
backslash. A patch has been applied upstream, but not yet packaged in,
say, Debian unstable. A forward-compatible work-around has therefore
been put in place.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys, time, errno, signal

# Kill off any leftover daemon processes
try:
    fp = open(os.environ['DAEMON_PIDS'])
    for line in fp:
        try:
            pid = int(line)
        except ValueError:
            continue
        try:
            os.kill(pid, 0)
            os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
            for i in range(10):
                time.sleep(0.05)
                os.kill(pid, 0)
            os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
        except OSError, err:
            if err.errno != errno.ESRCH:
                raise
    fp.close()
except IOError:
    pass