How to kill a python child process created with subprocess.check_output() when the parent dies?

Question

I am running on a linux machine a python script which creates a child process using subprocess.check_output() as it follows:

subprocess.check_output([\"ls\",         


        

Answer 1

Manually you could do this:

ps aux | grep

get the PID(second column) and

kill -9 -9 is to force killing it