Re: subprocess.Popen not replacing current process?

2010-11-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <7c5be6d7-5782-44ad-aae7-7f7bbc798...@n32g2000prc.googlegroups.com>, goodman wrote: > Though I'm still a little confused how, if subprocess.Popen is using > os.execvp, it still maintains control of things like interrupts. The implied point, being that we are spawning subprocesses, is

Re: subprocess.Popen not replacing current process?

2010-11-04 Thread goodman
On Nov 4, 4:43 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message > <0f1a17f4-b6a9-4e89-ac26-74b1098a0...@b19g2000prj.googlegroups.com>, goodman > wrote: > > > Hi, I'm wondering why subprocess.Popen does not seem to replace the > > current process, even when it uses os.execvp (according to the > > docume

Re: subprocess.Popen not replacing current process?

2010-11-04 Thread goodman
On Nov 4, 1:22 am, goodman wrote: > Note: Our server is a Linux machine, but we're restricted to Python > 2.4. > > Hi, I'm wondering why subprocess.Popen does not seem to replace the > current process, even when it uses os.execvp (according to the > documentation:http://docs.python.org/library/sub

Re: subprocess.Popen not replacing current process?

2010-11-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <0f1a17f4-b6a9-4e89-ac26-74b1098a0...@b19g2000prj.googlegroups.com>, goodman wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering why subprocess.Popen does not seem to replace the > current process, even when it uses os.execvp (according to the > documentation: > http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#s

subprocess.Popen not replacing current process?

2010-11-04 Thread goodman
Note: Our server is a Linux machine, but we're restricted to Python 2.4. Hi, I'm wondering why subprocess.Popen does not seem to replace the current process, even when it uses os.execvp (according to the documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen). Specifically,