Hi, I'm trying to run a process from a python script. I need the exit status of that process but do not care about its output, so until now was using os.system(). But it turned out that the process often went into an infinite loop, so I wrote a SIGALRM handler. Unfortunately the code I came up with is quite kludgy:
import subprocess ... try: p = subprocess.Popen(..., shell = True) pid = p.pid os.waitpid(pid...) ... except ...: # Thrown by alarm signal handler os.kill(pid + 1) # "Real" pid = shell pid + 1 ... The os.kill is very hacky and unsafe so I was looking for better ideas. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
