erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sep 18, 3:33 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the correct way to launch subprocess without waiting for > > > the result to return? > > > > Creating an instance of 'subprocess.Popen' will launch the process > > and return the Popen instance. You then have the option of polling > > it or waiting for it to complete. > > So if I create a Popen object and then just ignore the object and > exit the program the subproccess will finish it's work and then exit > itself cleanly?
Ah, no, that's a different thing. If the parent exits, the child will also be killed I believe. If you want to spawn a process and have it live on independent of the parent, you want to make the child process a "daemon", detatching itself from the parent's environment. I don't recall how that's done immediately, but those are the terms to search for. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Yes Brain, but | `\ if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
