[Twisted-Python] Problems with signalProcess on Windows

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:40:10 +0000, Brian Granger <ellisonbg.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>[take a deep breath and try to get over how much I dislike Windows]
>
>So, I am using Twisted's external process capabilities in a
>cross-platform setting.  Almost everything is working now in Windows.
>But, when I try to stop the external program (using
>signalProcess("INT")) that I starting using reactor.spawnProcess, I
>get the following traceback:
>
>            self.process_transport.signalProcess(sig)
>          File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\_dumbwin32proc.py
>", line 247, in signalProcess
>            win32process.TerminateProcess(self.hProcess, 1)
>        pywintypes.error: (5, 'TerminateProcess', 'Access is denied.')
>
>The odd thing is that the process stops just fine.  That is, it tells
>me that it has received SIGINT and is shutting down.
>
>Any thoughts on why this would happen?  I have no idea where to even
>begin looking.
>
>Thanks in advanced.

I think this is a long standing problem with Twisted's support of processes
on Windows.  I thought there was a ticket for this, but it seems the closest
thing I can find is <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2726>, the scope
of which is a bit broader than just making signalProcess work.

It has been suggested that it is necessary to first OpenProcess to get a
handle to pass to TerminateProcess.  The only reason this hasn't been
implemented is lack of interest (and, as you alluded, the unpleasantness
of doing anything related to Windows).

Jean-Paul