def enable_death_signal(_warn=True):
    """
    Set the "death signal" of the current process, so that
    the current process will be cleaned with guarantee
    in case the parent dies accidentally.
    """
    if platform.system() != 'Linux':
        return
    try:
        import prctl    # pip install python-prctl
    except ImportError:
        if _warn:
            log_once('"import prctl" failed! Install python-prctl so that processes can be cleaned with guarantee.',
                     'warn')
        return
    else:
        assert hasattr(prctl, 'set_pdeathsig'), \
            "prctl.set_pdeathsig does not exist! Note that you need to install 'python-prctl' instead of 'prctl'."
        # is SIGHUP a good choice?
        prctl.set_pdeathsig(signal.SIGHUP)

    Set the "death signal" of the current process, so that
    the current process will be cleaned with guarantee
    in case the parent dies accidentally.
    
tensorpack/utils/concurrency.py