Then how does fetchmail do that ?
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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