为什么 multiprocessing.Process.join() 挂起？

我以这种方式使用多处理：

import multiprocessing as mp

def worker(thread_id, tasks, results):
    tmp_dir = 'temp_for_{}'.format(thread_id)
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
    try:
        while not tasks.empty():
            data = tasks.get()
            response = process_pdf(data, tmp_dir)
            results.put(response)
    except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
        log.info('Interrupt signal received in thread %s.', thread_id)
    except Queue.Empty:
        pass
    except Exception:
        log.error("Unexpected error in %s", thread_id, exc_info=True)
    finally:
        shutil.rmtree(tmp_dir)
        log.info("Thread %s exit", thread_id)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    tasks, results = mp.Queue(), mp.Queue()
    for record in cursor.select(query):
        tasks.put(record)
    manager = mp.Manager()
    workers = [mp.Process(target=worker, args=(i, tasks, results)) for i in xrange(8)]
    for worker in workers:
        worker.start()
    try:
        for worker in workers:
            worker.join()
    except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
        log.info('Interrupt signal received in main. Cleaning up main')
    finally:
        log.info('Got %s results. Saving', results.qsize())
        while not results.empty():
            cursor.update_one('documents', 'id', results.get())
        cursor.close()

这是我运行此代码时的输出：

14:34:04 15/10 INFO: Thread 6 exit
14:34:04 15/10 INFO: Thread 7 exit
14:34:21 15/10 INFO: Thread 3 exit
14:34:24 15/10 INFO: Thread 2 exit
14:34:24 15/10 INFO: Thread 1 exit
14:34:29 15/10 INFO: Thread 5 exit
14:34:36 15/10 INFO: Thread 0 exit
14:35:37 15/10 INFO: Thread 4 exit

然后我在等待一段时间后输入 ^C 没有任何进展，并得到以下输出：

^C14:37:16 15/10 INFO: Interrupt signal received in main. Cleaning up main
14:37:16 15/10 INFO: Got 16 results. Saving

我得到了所有线程的回溯：

Process Process-9:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 261, in _bootstrap
    util._exit_function()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/util.py", line 328, in _exit_function
    util._exit_function()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/util.py", line 274, in _run_finalizers
    finalizer()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/util.py", line 207, in __call__
    res = self._callback(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 218, in _finalize_join
    thread.join()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 952, in join
    thread.join()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 340, in wait
    waiter.acquire()
KeyboardInterrupt

为什么这个挂了？如果重要的话我可以补充一下process_pdf()运行一些子进程subprocess.Popen().

非常感谢达诺的提示。解决此问题的方法是使用以下命令创建队列Manager():

manager = mp.Manager()
tasks, results = manager.Queue(), manager.Queue()

Edit
Tnx to ShadowRanger. Looks like exceptions in dispatch fixed for 2.7.10 https://bugs.python.org/issue23051 and now we can use multiprocessing.Pool with imap_unorderedand don't need write wall of code http://bryceboe.com/2012/02/14/python-multiprocessing-pool-and-keyboardinterrupt-revisited/ for simple job :) But I didn't try it yet