# # misc.py -- Miscellaneous utilities. # # Copyright (c) 2011 Beanbag, Inc. # Copyright (c) 2011 Mike Conley # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining # a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the # "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including # without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, # distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to # permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to # the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included # in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF # MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. # IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY # CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, # TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE # SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. # from contextlib import contextmanager import logging @contextmanager def controlled_subprocess(process_name, process): """ A context manager for a subprocess that guarantees that a process is terminated, even if exceptions are thrown while using it. The process_name argument is used for logging when the process goes down fighting. The process argument is a process returned by subprocess.Popen. Example usage: process = subprocess.Popen(['patch', '-o', newfile, oldfile]) with controlled_subprocess("patch", process) as p: # ... do things with the process p Once outside the with block, you can rest assured that the subprocess is no longer running. """ caught_exception = None try: yield process except Exception, e: caught_exception = e # If we haven't gotten a returncode at this point, we assume the # process is blocked. Let's kill it. if process.returncode is None and process.poll() is None: logging.warning(_("The process '%s' with PID '%s' did not exit " + "cleanly and will be killed automatically.") % (process_name, process.pid)) process.kill() # Now that we've killed the process, we'll grab the return code, # in order to clear the zombie. process.wait() # If we caught an exception earlier, re-raise it. if caught_exception: raise caught_exception