Howdy all, I'm in the process of creating a daemon program using Python. I know that the program needs to 'os.fork()', then branch based on the return value and either exit (if the parent) or continue (if the child).
How can I unit test that? That is to say, how can I programmatically test that functionality of daemonisation from an external module which imports the daemon module for testing? I could be hackish and simply clobber the existing 'os.fork' for the purpose of the unit test, making a stub function that returns the appropriate values for the test. Is there a better way? -- \ "Beware of and eschew pompous prolixity." -- Charles A. | `\ Beardsley | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
