En Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:52:57 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm new to Python and am evaluating moving a project from Tcl/Tk to > Python and am stuck on one issue. How can I nohup (or any detached > task for that matter) a process and get its PID in Python. The obvious > route of (with a trivial example) > > os.system("nohup ls > junk &") > > returns the status of the command execution (ie. 0). I wish to get the > PID output of the command (e.g. 16617). All the other commands spawn** > also seem to return the execution status not the PID. This is a > showstopper so any help appreciated.
The spawn* family will return the pid if you use the P_NOWAIT flag. But the best way is to use the subprocess module; Popen objects have a pid attribute. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list