On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:40:01 +0100, Rolf van de Krol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To create a deamon, you indeed need to fork two times.
Do I really need this much complication just to exit the script and let a child handle the pop-up? I've changed this line, and the parent still doesn't return, and the script waits until the child ends before resuming to the next step: if os.fork(): #BAD? sys.exit(0) os._exit(0) else: Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list