#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright (C) 2022 The Qt Company Ltd. # SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0 import os import time class TimeoutException(Exception): def __init__(self, msg): self.msg = msg def __str__(self): return repr(self.msg) class ProcessTimer(object): '''Timeout function for controlling a subprocess.Popen instance. Naive implementation using busy loop, see later other means of doing this. ''' def __init__(self, proc, timeout): self.proc = proc self.timeout = timeout def waitfor(self): time_passed = 0 while(self.proc.poll() is None and time_passed < self.timeout): time_passed = time_passed + 1 time.sleep(1) if time_passed >= self.timeout: raise TimeoutException("Timeout expired, possible deadlock") if __name__ == "__main__": # simple example from subprocess import Popen proc = Popen(['sleep', '10']) t = ProcessTimer(proc, 5) try: t.waitfor() except TimeoutException: print(f"timeout - PID: {t.proc.pid}") #TODO: detect SO and kill accordingly #Linux os.kill(t.proc.pid, 9) #Windows (not tested) #subprocess.Popen("taskkill /F /T /PID %i"%handle.pid , shell=True) print(f"exit code: {t.proc.poll()}")