ExifTool process continues to run after parent python process tskill is sent on windows.

[apiszcz]

It appears that something is causing pyxexiftool to ignore the kill signal.
I would like to be to terminate the process with taskkill or tskill.
tskill PID has no effect

[sylikc]

Do you happen to be using this on WINDOWS?

I have the same problem and I tried to fix it on my fork to no avail sylikc@5a87388 . This is a problem only on Windows... I've further reported this bug to CPython https://bugs.python.org/issue43784 They haven't fixed it yet...

Behavior: Python interpreter hangs on exit as the autokill doesn't work. I actually think spawning a process like taskkill or tskill will hang as well

[apiszcz]

Yes

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[sylikc]

Anyhow it's not fixed. You'd want to manually call et.terminate instead of having it work at del() . I tried a couple ways, and on Windows it's a bug with CPython 3.9+ ... no way around it.