On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 23:15 +0000, Robin Becker wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > > Martijn Brouwer wrote: > > > >> I am writing a unix daemon in python, so I want to close stdin, stdout > >> and stderr. > >> My first attempt was to the standard file descriptors using their > >> close() methods. After closing stdout, I could not print anymore, so > >> this seemed to work. However, later I noticed that they were not really > >> closed. When I close them using os.close(), it did work. > >> What is the difference between these two methods and what is the reason > >> behind it? It took me a day to find out why I could not log out after > >> starting the daemon. > >> > >> Martijn > >> > >> > >> > > I've had excellent results with variants of the cookbook entry at > > > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731 > > > but perhaps you're using a non unix OS, which will make that recipe wrong.
Well, I am writing a unix daemon ;) Martijn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list