On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 23:13 +0000, 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 >
I read this one, which was the reason that I tried os.close instead of sys.stdXXX.close(). But I would like to know why it does not close a file discriptor is I call its close method(). Martijn -- Martijn Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
