Problem with spawning an external process

2006-04-12 Thread Nico Kruger
I want to execute a command (in this case, and it seems to be significant, a Java program) in a thread in Python. When I execute the java binary in the main python thread, everything runs correctly. But when I try and execute java in a thread, java segfaults. I am using Python 2.3.3 and trying to

Re: Problem with spawning an external process

2006-04-12 Thread Nico Kruger
Apologies, this is on a Fedora Core 2 system. On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 11:27, Nico Kruger wrote: I want to execute a command (in this case, and it seems to be significant, a Java program) in a thread in Python. When I execute the java binary in the main python thread, everything runs correctly

Re: Problem with spawning an external process

2006-04-12 Thread Nico Kruger
Daniel, you are correct, it is not that good news for me :) But anyway, thanks to your responses, I installed Python 2.4.3 and it is working on my machine now as well. We were overdue for an upgrade to our Python environment anyways, so I think this is the final incentive to upgrade. Although, I

Re: Problem with spawning an external process

2006-04-12 Thread Nico Kruger
Not working with Python 2.3.5 here on Fedora Core 2 :(. Oh well, at least it's working on 2.4. Must be specific to something in the combination of Fedora Core 2 and Python 2.3.x, that is all I can think of. On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:55, Nico Kruger wrote: Daniel, you are correct