Almar Klein wrote:
Ah, no, that's a different thing. If the parent exits, the child will
also be killed I believe.
Not if it's stuck in some endless loop...
If you want to spawn a process and have it live on independent of the
parent, you want to make the child process a "daemon", detatching
itself from the parent's environment. I don't recall how that's done
immediately, but those are the terms to search for.
I'm curious how this can be done, does anyone know this?
I just dove into this several day ago for a small project.
On Linux it's easy -- it involves a couple of forks and other system
calls. Google for daemonize.py.
<http://github.com/lfittl/python-helpers/tree/master/daemonize.py>
On Windows, a bit of searching seems to find a consensus that the way to
do something similar is as a Window's service. I'm just now looking
into how to register and start a service, and how to stop and remove it
later. Google finds lots of information on this -- perhaps I'll post my
result when I've pulled it all together.
Gary Herron
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