Re: [Twisted-Python] Knowing whether spawnProcess did anything useful

2010-07-14 Thread Dominic van Berkel
On 14-7-2010 4:34, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > Without the reactor running, neither the pid nor the status will ever be > updated. The event loop is needed in order to respond to the event of > the child process exiting. > Knew I was forgetting something - starting the reactor would pr

Re: [Twisted-Python] Knowing whether spawnProcess did anything useful

2010-07-13 Thread exarkun
On 13 Jul, 09:18 pm, domi...@baudvine.net wrote: >Hiya, > >I'm looking for a way to know whether spawnProcess() did anything >useful. That is, whether anything has actually been executed. In my >specific case the executables are all persistent (pluggable modules, >they stick around for a while) so