On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Almar Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ah, no, that's a different thing. If the parent exits, the child will >> also be killed I believe. > > Not if it's stuck in some endless loop... > >> 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. > > I'm curious how this can be done, does anyone know this? > > Almar > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
First result in "making a daemon in python with google": http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-February/427692.html (not tested) Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
