Martijn Brouwer wrote: > 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 > > > I've had excellent results with variants of the cookbook entry at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731 -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
