Robin Becker wrote: > 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 > but perhaps you're using a non unix OS, which will make that recipe wrong.
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