On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:01:23 GMT, Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:30:23 -0700, Mystilleef wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Thank you. That's all I needed. For some reason, I had always assumed >> forking was an expensive process. I guess I was ill-informed. > > In a loop, yes, it's expensive.
It depends on what you mean by expensive -- web servers can fork for each HTTP request they get, in real-world scenarios, and get away with it. > Done once, it's usually not unacceptable. In fact, I can't think of a scenario where it /would/ be unacceptable ;-) But back to the original problem: I can't really see why anybody would need the "let my terminal go" feature. Is there a reason why 'gvim foo.txt&' isn't good enough? /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
