On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Eliran wrote:
> Take the 'fetchmail' program for example.
> 
> You use 'fetchmail -d nn' to start the daemon, later when you want to stop
> it you type : 'fetchmail -q' there is no special structure, I used
> the same code as you but the child's code was in a function.

So, what's the problem again? You have the child's pid, don't you?
Not to mention that if you use 'fetchmail -q', you don't need it
anyway!

You might want to look into os.system() to spawn a process in the
background, if you don't want to handle wait() yourself. 
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