I am a little confused on what subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, preexec_fn=os.setpgrp) does.
where cmd is something like ["mybashscript", "arg1", "arg2"]
Initially I was just using subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE), but I had an issue, where I run the bash script in a subprocess. And that if I interrupt (ctr+c) the python script, it will kill the bash script as well, but it does not do the clean up. The clean up is in the bash script itself.
But if I run the bash script directly, and hit ctr+c, it will stop the script and execute the clean up.
I tried assigning my own signal_handler and assign it to signal.signal(signal.SIG_INT, signal_handler) that then performs p.send_signal(signal.SIG_INT) to the subprocess but didnt seem to work.
Adding preexec_fn=os.setpgrpto the subprocess command, did do the job. Interrupting the python script, stops the bash script while still executing the clean up. But was just wondering what it really does? Or how it works? Some state that this detaches the child from the parent, and unable to receive signal, but then how did it work?
