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-rw-r--r--buildstream/plugin.py7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/buildstream/plugin.py b/buildstream/plugin.py
index 16ab0a701..ec5c6d600 100644
--- a/buildstream/plugin.py
+++ b/buildstream/plugin.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import sys
from subprocess import CalledProcessError
from contextlib import contextmanager
from weakref import WeakValueDictionary
-import psutil
from . import _yaml, _signals
from . import utils
@@ -526,11 +525,7 @@ class Plugin():
# the temp directories which we control and cleanup
# ourselves.
#
- proc = psutil.Process(process.pid)
- children = proc.children(recursive=True)
- for child in children:
- child.kill()
- proc.kill()
+ utils._kill_process_tree(process.pid)
def suspend_proc():
if process: