On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:14 PM Ian Gudger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am using Go 1.14 AMD64 on Linux 5.3.0.
>
> When I create a subprocess with exec.Cmd.Start, I can't seem to fully kill it 
> with exec.Cmd.Process.Kill, or at least not to the satisfaction of 
> exec.Cmd.Wait.
>
> I am doing something along the lines of:
> cmd := exec.Command(binPath)
> if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
> ...
> }
> if err := cmd.Process.Kill(); err != nil {
> ...
> }
> if err := cmd.Wait(); err != nil {
> ...
> }
>
> However, this hangs on Wait. As far as I can tell this shouldn't happen. Any 
> idea what I might be doing wrong?

Does the subprocess start any subprocesses itself?  Are you capturing
Stdout or Stderr into a bytes.Buffer or similar?  See
https://golang.org/issue/23019.

Ian

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