Making sure a Python script with subprocesses dies on SIGINT

Question

I\'ve got a command that I\'m wrapping in script and spawning from a Python script using subprocess.Popen. I\'m trying to make sure it dies if the

Answer 1

This hack will work, but it's ugly...

Change the command to this:

success_flag = '/tmp/success.flag'
cmd = [ 'script', '-q', '-c', "sleep 2 && touch " + success_flag, '/dev/null']

And put

if os.path.isfile( success_flag ) :
    os.remove( success_flag )
else :
    return

at the end of the for loop