wait function raises a TimeoutException when a process returns -1 (Windows)

[giampaolo]

From amnio...@gmail.com on May 18, 2011 09:00:22

What steps will reproduce the problem?  
1.Create a process that has an exit code of -1
2.Launch that process and use wait with no arguments
3.wait function will raise a TimeoutException, but there is no timeout, the 
application exits with -1, so it should return -1 instead 

What version of psutil are you using? What Python version?  
It happens on 0.2.1 and on trunk as of 18/05/2011

On what operating system? 
Tested on WinXP/Win7 

Please provide any additional information below.  
trunk/psutil/_psmswindows.py  -> Line 167 & 168 (it checks for -1)
trunk/psutil/_psutil_mswindows.c -> function process_wait

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=164

[giampaolo]

From jlo...@gmail.com on May 18, 2011 05:32:50

I've modified the code in r971 to return and check for the actual WAIT_TIMEOUT 
value instead of -1, so that should solve this issue. However, If the process 
for some reason returns WAIT_TIMEOUT (0x00000102) then this will still occur. 
Since -1 is a moderately likely return value and 0x00000102 less so, I think 
that's a reasonable compromise.

Status: FixedInSVN
Labels: OpSys-Windows Milestone-0.2.2

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on June 27, 2011 10:52:41

Labels: Milestone-0.3.0

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on July 08, 2011 12:07:35

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 04:00:19

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r971 == revision 
70284e93f610