From 69bfb0ff13385f6856b0ca26760bd550de67a13d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuhong Wen <yuhongw@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:48:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use process.kill() to kill the children processes.

---
 nvflare/private/fed/app/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nvflare/private/fed/app/utils.py b/nvflare/private/fed/app/utils.py
index d3b0c0ae82..49fc65b9ea 100644
--- a/nvflare/private/fed/app/utils.py
+++ b/nvflare/private/fed/app/utils.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def kill_child_processes(parent_pid, sig=signal.SIGTERM):
         return
     children = parent.children(recursive=True)
     for process in children:
-        process.send_signal(sig)
+        process.kill()
 
 
 def create_admin_server(fl_server: FederatedServer, server_conf=None, args=None, secure_train=False):