<div dir="ltr">In case it helps, Box Backup uses Windows <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winbase/nf-winbase-createjobobjecta" target="_blank">Job Objects</a> to ensure that any daemons started during a test will automatically be killed when the test process exits (if not stopped cleanly beforehand):<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/boxbackup/boxbackup/blob/s3_support/infrastructure/buildenv-testmain-template.cpp#L367" target="_blank">https://github.com/boxbackup/boxbackup/blob/s3_support/infrastructure/buildenv-testmain-template.cpp#L367</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Linux you can use prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) in the child process (between fork() and exec()) to achieve this.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 22:17, Person Withhats <<a href="mailto:personwithhats2@gmail.com">personwithhats2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Pressing "STOP" in the CMake GUI interface halts CMake itself but does not stop any execute_process that is going on at the time. This makes it hang until the process finishes, since no interrupt is sent......<div><br></div><div>Aggravating when you're using an exterior script (e.g. a .exe or .py) that e.g. handles package maintenance. Would hang up for the entire duration of ~40 minutes unless you force kill that sub process.</div><div><br></div><div>I think force-killing CMake GUI also won't forward the kill to the exec_process, orphaning it.....>.<</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know any suggestions or possible fixes</div></div>
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