My goal is to write a script that 1) write something to stdout; then
fork into the background, closing the stdout (and stderr, stdin) pipe.
I have found this answer (forking -> setsid -> forking)
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3356154
However the standard output of the child is still connected to the
terminal. I would like that if we execute a subprocess.checkprocess on
this program, only "I would like to see this" is captured and that the
program terminates when the parent exits.
#! /usr/bin/python2
import os,sys,time
print "I would like to see this"
pid = os.fork()
if (pid == 0): # The first child.
# os.chdir("/")
os.setsid()
# os.umask(0)
pid2 = os.fork()
if (pid2 == 0): # Second child
print "I would like not see this"
time.sleep(5)
else:
sys.exit() #First child exists
else: # Parent Code
sys.exit() # Parent exists
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