On Nov 6, 3:09 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michele Petrazzo wrote: > > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > >> See the prctl(2) man page. > > > Just seen. It can be, bust since I cannot modify the child process and > > this syscall must be called from the child, I cannot use it. > > You do the fork and then the exec, right? So do the prctl in-between.
You could also write a wrapper program that does a prctl and then exec(actual command). Infact you could use a wrapper program to portably poll for the parent if you dont want to prctl(); invoke this wrapper from python, the wrapper can then invoke your actual command. -srp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
