On Sep 19, 2012 9:37 AM, "andrea crotti" <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well there is a process which has to do two things, monitor > periodically some external conditions (filesystem / db), and launch a > process that can take very long time. > > So I can't put a wait anywhere, or I'll stop everything else. But at > the same time I need to know when the process is finished, which I > could do but without a wait might get hacky. > > So I'm quite sure I just need to run the subprocess in a subthread > unless I'm missing something obvious.
If you want to see if a processes has terminated without waiting, use poll.
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