I use os.system invoking java VM, when running in python thread, the java application crashes. But it works properly when thread is not used.
Has any body come across with this problem? Python 2.3.3 J2SDK 1.4.2_05 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 The following is source file: #!/usr/bin/env python import os, sys, threading class ThreadTask(threading.Thread) : def __init__(self, shellcmd) : threading.Thread.__init__(self) self.command = shellcmd def isStopped(self) : self.join(0.01) return not self.isAlive() def run(self) : os.system(self.command) def test() : commands = [ "/usr/lib/java/bin/javac", "/usr/lib/java/bin/java", ] tasks = [] for a in commands : tasks.append(ThreadTask(a)) for a in tasks : a.start() endcnt = 0 while endcnt < len(tasks) : endcnt = 0 for a in tasks : if a.isStopped() : endcnt += 1 print("DONE") test() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list