Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Sure! > > You could get rid of this by sleeping until a SIGCHLD arrived maybe.
Yah, I could also just dump Popen class and use fork(). But then what's the point of having an abstraction layer any more? >> This can still be a problem for applications that call wait in a >> dedicated thread, but the program can always ignore the processes >> it doesn't know anything about. > > Ignoring them isn't good enough because it means that the bit of code > which was waiting for that process to die with os.getpid() will never > get called, causing a deadlock in that bit of code. > Are you talking about something like os.waitpid(os.getpid())? If the process has completed and de-zombified by another os.wait() call, I thought it would just throw an exception; it won't cause a deadlock by hanging the process. ~Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
