Test forcing termination (SIGKILL)

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/needs_kill.py b/tests/needs_kill.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..810236b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/needs_kill.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""This script can only be killed by SIGKILL."""
+import signal, time
+
+# Ignore interrupt, hangup and continue signals - only SIGKILL will work
+signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
+signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, signal.SIG_IGN)
+signal.signal(signal.SIGCONT, signal.SIG_IGN)
+
+print('READY')
+while True:
+    time.sleep(10)
+    
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_isalive.py b/tests/test_isalive.py
index 7810e2e..5386bac 100755
--- a/tests/test_isalive.py
+++ b/tests/test_isalive.py
@@ -90,9 +90,14 @@ class IsAliveTestCase(PexpectTestCase.PexpectTestCase):
         if p.isalive():
             self.fail ('Child process is not dead. It should be.')
 
+    def test_forced_terminate(self):
+        p = pexpect.spawn(sys.executable, ['needs_kill.py'])
+        p.expect('READY')
+        res = p.terminate(force=True)
+        assert res, res
+
 ### Some platforms allow this. Some reset status after call to waitpid.
     def test_expect_isalive_consistent_multiple_calls (self):
-
         '''This tests that multiple calls to isalive() return same value.
         '''