oh, yeah that was perfect. got it working and it is graceful too. sorry about the double post, i thought i was only posting to this one.
one final concern, if this code is running under a function in a multi-threaded, multi-session kind of environment, does exec cross threads or sessions? like, i am afraid that i will get cross-over or bleeding into other threads or sessions. does exec do that kind of common memory space wherein i have to be very very careful about executing such code and my daemon crashing or security holes and the like. lucas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
