On 14 Sep 2015, at 14:21, Liam Hoekenga <li...@umich.edu> wrote:
> I'm writing a new factor. I'm looking at a previous scripted factor, and it
> includes:
>
> pid = os.fork()
> if (pid != 0):
> #This is the name of factor reported to cosign
> print('factor')
> sys.exit(0)
>
> The author is no longer here. Why would they do this? Is this a good
> practice to follow?
Does the child do something? Clean something up? From the CGI’s perspective,
the factor is done after the exit, but there’s an opportunity for the child of
the factor to continue doing something. Without more context it’s not possible
to say whether this code is good.
:wes
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