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a Python library to communicate with an instance of Phil Harvey's excellent ExifTool command-line application.
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ExifTool process continues to run after parent python process tskill is sent on windows. #34

Open apiszcz opened 3 years ago

apiszcz commented 3 years ago

It appears that something is causing pyxexiftool to ignore the kill signal. I would like to be to terminate the process with taskkill or tskill. tskill PID has no effect

sylikc commented 2 years ago

Do you happen to be using this on WINDOWS?

I have the same problem and I tried to fix it on my fork to no avail https://github.com/sylikc/pyexiftool/commit/5a87388a50e7a8f0dbbaef7e46db5fe9c7c8f941 . This is a problem only on Windows... I've further reported this bug to CPython https://bugs.python.org/issue43784 They haven't fixed it yet...

Behavior: Python interpreter hangs on exit as the autokill doesn't work. I actually think spawning a process like taskkill or tskill will hang as well

apiszcz commented 2 years ago

Yes

On Jan 30, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Kevin M @.***> wrote:

 Do you happen to be using this on WINDOWS?

I have the same problem and I tried to fix it on my fork to no avail @.*** . This is a problem only on Windows... I've further reported this bug to CPython https://bugs.python.org/issue43784 They haven't fixed it yet...

Behavior: Python interpreter hangs on exit as the autokill doesn't work. I actually think spawning a process like taskkill or tskill will hang as well

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sylikc commented 2 years ago

Anyhow it's not fixed. You'd want to manually call et.terminate instead of having it work at del() . I tried a couple ways, and on Windows it's a bug with CPython 3.9+ ... no way around it.