I am writing a unix daemon in python, so I want to close stdin, stdout and stderr. My first attempt was to the standard file descriptors using their close() methods. After closing stdout, I could not print anymore, so this seemed to work. However, later I noticed that they were not really closed. When I close them using os.close(), it did work. What is the difference between these two methods and what is the reason behind it? It took me a day to find out why I could not log out after starting the daemon.
Martijn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
