Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>
> OK, here is another interesting problem which took several hours to
> track. When a Gtk program forks off, it inherits the X file
> descriptors from its parent. It seems that when I call sys.exit(),
> Gdk gains control (either through atexit() or through a PyGtk cleanup
> intercepting SystemExit), interacts with the X file descriptors,
> totally hosing the parent. As a result, the parent's Gdk reports IO
> errors and aborts.
Oops, I meant to warn you about this. :(
>From the child process, I avoid sys.exit like the plague. Rather, I do
os.execv("/bin/true",[])
The execv simply replaces the current process with /bin/true, which
exits nicely, leaving the parent's file descriptors alone.
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