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Posted to dev@airflow.apache.org by "EKC (Erik Cederstrand)" <EK...@novozymes.com> on 2017/03/01 13:34:00 UTC

kill_process_tree() doesn't kill the root process?

Hi folks,


While tracking down zombie processes on our Airflow workers, I had a look at airflow.utils.helpers.kill_process_tree()


As far as I can gather from the comments in the function  and its use elsewhere, the intent is to kill the given pid and all its children. But while the child pids are killed, the root pid itself is never killed. Is this intentional?


Kind regards,

Erik