From 453f26d10f02146f59e7978e510bce68095c82a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:03:03 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Don't delay waiting for simple worker to quit --- src/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py b/src/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py index 171bd2dc7e..a7a30200a1 100644 --- a/src/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py +++ b/src/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ def fork_job(mod_name, func_name, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout=300, # seconds communicate(ans, w, listener, (mod_name, func_name, args, kwargs), timeout=timeout) finally: - w.kill() + t = Thread(target=w.kill) + t.daemon=True + t.start() if no_output: try: os.remove(w.log_path)