I use Tornado as a web server, user can submit a task through the front end page, after auditing they can start the submitted task. In this situation, i want to start an asynchronous sub process to handle the task, so i write the following code in an request handler:
def task_handler():
// handle task here
def start_a_process_for_task():
p = multiprocessing.Process(target=task_handler,args=())
p.start()
return 0
I don't care about the sub process and just start a process for it and return to the front end page and tell user the task is started. The task itself will run in the background and will record it's status or results to database so user can view on the web page later. So here i don't want to use p.join() which is blocking, but without p.join() after the task finished,the sub process becomes a defunct process and as Tornado runs as a daemon and never exits, the defunct process will never disappear.
Anyone knows how to fix this problem, thanks.