Re: [Condor-users] condor_rm and process killing on Windows

[Colin Stolley <stolley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When some.exe is running and he does condor_rm, condor is actually
> killing the some.exe process -- the deepest process in the tree. Leaving
> it's parent csh process thinking that some.exe finished and that it
> should return a bunch of stuff to him over FTP.
>  
Nope, you're mixed up.

When the execute machine is instructed to vacate (e.g. as a result of 
someone running condor_rm on a running job), condor sends WM_CLOSE 
messages to each process underneath the starter, regardless of their 
position in the "tree" (in fact, windows doesn't use process hierarchies 
at all).

If you wanted to do something other than immediately exit when the 
WM_CLOSE message is posted to your process, you have to override the 
event handler (see 
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/6_2Microsoft_Windows.html#SECTION00723000000000000000 
). I'm not aware of any way to do that using MKS csh or cmd.exe batch 
scripts, however.

Colin