On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:16:29PM +0200, Eliran wrote:

> import os
> childpid = os.fork
> if (childpid == 0):
>            child_stuff()
> else:
>            os.exit()

You definitely have to keep it somewhere outside the program,
then. /var/run/foo/pid comes to mind as a reasonably place (assuming
you have permission to write there). 
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