Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:30:09 -0600, Nick Craig-Wood > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > > If you run this > > > > import os,sys,time > > print os.getpid() > > sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w') > > time.sleep(60) > > > > It prints its pid. > > > I would hope so, as you performed the print BEFORE reassigning > stdout...
That is what I intended. I wanted the pid to look in /proc/<pid>/fd to see what file descriptors were really open. > import os,sys,time > print "pre:", os.getpid() > sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w') > print "post:", os.getpid() > time.sleep(60) > > (Granted, I'm on WinXP; I also suspect the original stdout is still open > in the background, maybe dualled with stderr?) Yes that is the point - the original stdout is still open. I don't think this discussion is relevant to windows though - windows has its own way of making daemons. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
