--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tests/killdaemons.py	Mon May 23 15:41:20 2011 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os, time, errno, signal
+
+# Kill off any leftover daemon processes
+try:
+    fp = open(os.environ['DAEMON_PIDS'])
+    for line in fp:
+        try:
+            pid = int(line)
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+        try:
+            os.kill(pid, 0)
+            os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
+            for i in range(10):
+                time.sleep(0.05)
+                os.kill(pid, 0)
+            os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
+        except OSError, err:
+            if err.errno != errno.ESRCH:
+                raise
+    fp.close()
+except IOError:
+    pass