On Wednesday 26 January 2005 01:01, Donovan Baarda wrote: > In this case it turns out to be "don't do exec() in a thread, because what > you exec can have all it's signals masked". That turns out to be a hell of > a lot of things; popen, os.command, etc. They all only work OK in a > threaded application if what you are exec'ing doesn't use any signals.
Yep. You just have to be aware of it. We do a bit of this at work, and we either spool via a database table, or a directory full of spool files. > Actually, I've noticed that zope often has a sorta zombie "which" process > which it spawns. I wonder it this is a stuck thread waiting for some > signal... Quite likely. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
