On Windows, Process.terminate() no longer sets the returncode
attribute to always call WaitForSingleObject() in Process.wait().
Previously, sometimes the process was still running after
TerminateProcess() even if GetExitCodeProcess() is not STILL_ACTIVE.
On Windows, multiprocessing Popen.terminate() now catchs
PermissionError and get the process exit code. If the process is
still running, raise again the PermissionError. Otherwise, the
process terminated as expected: store its exit code.
sys._base_executable is now always defined on all platforms, and can be overridden through configuration.
Also adds test.support.PythonSymlink to encapsulate platform-specific logic for symlinking sys.executable
Fix a race condition in Popen of
multiprocessing.popen_spawn_win32. The child process now duplicates
the read end of pipe instead of "stealing" it.
Previously, the read end of pipe was "stolen" by the child process,
but it leaked a handle if the child process had been terminated
before it could steal the handle from the parent process.
* bpo-30794: added kill() method to multiprocessing.Process
* Added entries to documentation and NEWS
* Refactored test_terminate and test_kill
* Fix SIGTERM and SIGKILL being used on Windows for the tests
* Added "versionadded" marker to the documentation
* Fix trailing whitespace in doc
* Fix bpo-30596: Add close() method to multiprocessing.Process
* Raise ValueError if close() is called before the Process is finished running
* Add docs
* Add NEWS blurb
Henrik Tunedal
Victor Stinner
Steve Dower
Steve Dower
Victor Stinner
Vitor Pereira
Antoine Pitrou
Davin Potts
Richard Oudkerk