Mike Meyer wrote: > The easy way to do all these things - from C, anyway - is with > daemon(3). That isn't wrapped as part of the Python library. The > easiest way to solve your problem may be write a wrapper for that > call. If daemon exists on enough systems, submitting your wrapper as a > patch to the os modulee would be appropriate.
I think the deamon() library call only exists on the BSDs. Anyway, there it is implemented with a fork() call and some additional code to close std descriptors, so there's no practical difference between calling deamon() and fork() by yourself... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
