Hapless doesn't seem to actually kill the background task

[bmwant]

Hapless doesn't seem to actually kill the background task

[bmwant]

In a meanwhile you can test the fix by yourself by installing latest development branch

$ pip install git+https://github.com/bmwant/hapless.git

[bmwant]

Hey @nathan-fiscaletti, could you provide additional information:

1. hapless version: hap --version
2. your OS
3. content of the script if possible. If not I would like to know whether it spawns/forks/multiprocess etc within the script

[bmwant]

Only two processes should be created:
one main for the hapless itself
second one for the process you actually need to execute
You can check your parent pid also by invoking hap status -v 1 or using something like pstree to see whether you third process is related in any way to previous two

[bmwant]

ok, I found the issue and it is related to the shell=True parameter and extra process being created for the shell itself (tried on Ubuntu 20.04). I have created a fix to kill child process as well and will release new version soon.

In a future release I do also plan to skip shell spawning altogether and just provide current environment directly to the subprocess.