[erlang-questions] Sending signals to non-erlang processes

[Éric Pailleau]

Sorry, 
I meant your daemon have to check PPID, not port. This imply you can change its code, not always possible... 

Le 16 oct. 2015 19:18, Éric Pailleau <eric.pailleau@REDACTED> a écrit :
>
> Hi, 
> Your port just have to check getppid and exit if PPID is 1. The case if a parent exit, the child inherits of parent 1 (init).
> This can be as well with time interrupt if this cannot be done in a loop.
> Regards
>
> Le 16 oct. 2015 11:30, Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin@REDACTED> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi, 
> >
> > I am writing an OTP application which spawn instances of a non-erlang daemon 
> > to run tests. I use a port to execute the daemon and read its output. 
> >
> > However if for some reason my erlang application exits, the spawned daemon 
> > will not be killed. The documentation indicates: 
> >
> >     If the port owner terminates, so does the port (and the external program, if 
> >     it is written correctly). 
> >
> > The daemon itself behaves like most UNIX daemons and terminates on SIGTERM or 
> > SIGINT. But exiting the erlang VM (using ^C + abort) does not seem to do 
> > anything. 
> >
> > Is that on purpose ? 
> >
> > I also cannot find a way to actually stop the spawned application, 
> > port_close() does do it. The "UNIX way" is to send SIGTERM, wait for a bit, 
> > then send SIGKILL if the application did not stop. But I cannot find an erlang 
> > function to send a signal to an external process. I made a temporary fix using 
> > os:cmd("kill ..."), but it feels like a hack. 
> >
> > Is there a reason not to have something such as os:kill(Signo, Pid) ? 
> > Would erlang developers accept a patch to add it ? 
> > It could be a first step toward support for proper termination via 
> > port_control(), and an open_port() option to automatically close the child 
> > process when the port is closed. 
> >
> > Regards, 
> >
> > -- 
> > Nicolas Martyanoff 
> > khaelin@REDACTED 
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