Hi! I'm currently writing a script which launches external programs, but it keeps leaving zombie/defunct processes behind, until I kill the launching script, which is a bit of a pain, as it's supposed to be a daemon. The code I'm using is:
newPid = subprocess.Popen( cmdLine[ 1: ], executable=cmdLine[ 0 ], close_fds=True ).pid I've tried calling it using the shell=True flag, but that leaves a zombie for the sh, instead. I'm not interested in any output, the only thing I need returning, is the pid of the new process. I've tried using spawn*, with the same results. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. J -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
