From: "Eliran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Then how does fetchmail do that ?

Fetchmail stores its PID in ~/.fetchmail.pid


> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:16:29PM +0200, Eliran wrote:
> 
> > import os
> > childpid = os.fork
> > if (childpid == 0):
> >            child_stuff()
> > else:
> >            os.exit()
> 
> You definitely have to keep it somewhere outside the program,
> then. /var/run/foo/pid comes to mind as a reasonably place (assuming
> you have permission to write there). 

Sagi



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