python version please and where might I find this code?
fork(3) is the unix system call that copies the program and one becomes a
child process and another a parent (which is supposed to wait on the child).
The child process normally calls a function from the exec(2) family soon
afterward. Leopard
I maintain a RO.DS9, a cross-platform Python module that controls ds9
(a.k.a. SAOImage DS9), an astronomical image viewer.
The module starts by launching ds9 with a window of a known name (this
is required to further command it), and that's where I run into trouble
on MacOS X.
On unix and Wind