2006/8/26, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi, I'm writing a program, using popen4(gnuchess),
> The problem is, that gnuchess keeps running after program exit.
>
> I know about the atexit module, but in java, you could make a process a
> daemon process, and it would only run as long as the real processes ran. I
> think this is a better way to stop gnuchess, as you are 100% sure, that
> it'll stop.
>
> Can you do this with popen?
>
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You could send the quit (or close or wahtever) command to gnuchess
when you want it to terminate. Supposing that gnuchess needs to do
some stuff on exit, this is a better solution.

PAolo

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