Mick Phillips added the comment:
Yep - apologies, my mistake.
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New submission from Mick Phillips:
multiprocessing.Process.is_alive() returns True for processes that have been
killed. See attached for example.
Workaround: also test against psutils.pid_exists.
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Mick Phillips added the comment:
Thanks for confirming. If anyone finds this and is looking for a workaround,
here's what I'm using:
while not event.is_set()
try:
time.sleep(timeout)
except (KeyboardInterrupt, IOError):
New submission from Mick Phillips:
If a process was waiting on an Event but dies for some reason, nothing else can
set the Event. I think the Event._cond lock can not be acquired. See attached
for a demonstration.
I see the same behaviour in Python 2.7.5 and Python 3.5.2. Is this expected
