[web2py] Re: Book errata and minor bug in clean sessions script

2010-01-06 Thread John Heenan
My logs indicate that a web2py soft cron command to execute a Python file at or after a given interval is achieved by forking off another Python instance, instead of doing an exec on the contents of the file. A sample from my standard output logs is below. This is confirmed from examining web2py/g

[web2py] Re: Book errata and minor bug in clean sessions script

2010-01-06 Thread John Heenan
Sorry, fork is not the correct OS term, as the new process is not a copy of the parent process. The new process is just that, a new process. John Heenan On Jan 7, 11:14 am, John Heenan wrote: > My logs indicate that a web2py soft cron command to execute a Python > file at or after a given interv