Hans Mulder <han...@xs4all.nl> writes: > On 24/12/12 01:50:24, Olive wrote: > > My goal is to write a script that 1) write something to stdout; then > > fork into the background, closing the stdout (and stderr, stdin) pipe. > > > > I have found this answer (forking -> setsid -> forking) > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/3356154
You're following a path that leads to the desire for a “daemon” <URL:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473620/how-do-you-create-a-daemon-in-python/688448#688448>. > You may want to look at the python-daemon module on Pypy, which > appears to do what you need, including some features you haven't asked > for, yet. It's even better when you look at it on PyPI <URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/> (note that PyPy is a Python implementation, PyPI is an index of Python packages). The discussion forum for ‘python-daemon’ development is at <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-daemon-devel>. -- \ “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the | `\ occurrence of the improbable.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
