In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "ToMasz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, no, that wasn't my intention (I'm just not conscious enough what's > going on with these fork, exec, spawn.. functions). > My parent process should start the child process and go back to it's > tasks. Before executing it for the next time the parent should check if > the previous child process is done and start it again. > > Is it what these lines do? > > os.spawnlp(os.P_NOWAIT,'ext_script.py','') > os.waitpid(-1, os.WNOHANG) No, do you see them doing it? "Check if the previous child process is done?" In your original post you said you were using os.P_WAIT, but I suppose you really were using os.P_NOWAIT all along, right? This case may call for a working sample program that makes a genuine attempt to do what you want to do. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
