John [H2O] wrote:
> Hello, I would like to write a script that would have a command line option
> of a pid# (known ahead of time). Then I want my script to wait to execute
> until the pid is finished. How do I accomplish this?
>
> I tried the following:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import os
> import sys
>
> def run_cmd(cmd):
> """RUN A BASH CMD"""
> import subprocess as sub
> p = sub.Popen( ['/bin/bash' , '-c' , cmd ],
> stdout = sub.PIPE , stderr = sub.STDOUT )
> output = p.stdout.read()
> return output
>
> r=os.waitpid(sys.argv[1],0);
To approximate the behavior you're looking for, I've seen it suggested
that you can send signal number 0 to a non-child process until you get a
meaningful result. Never used this approach myself, but it might look
something like this:
import os, time
def waitncpid(pid):
while 1:
try:
os.kill(pid, 0)
time.sleep(1)
except OSError:
break
waitncpid(sys.argv[1])
Not sure what this would do on a windows machine. And, I suppose it is
possible that your process could end, and another start with the same
pid while sleeping between kill attempts, but this seems unlikely to me,
YMMV.
>
> cmd = 'echo "Now %s has finished " ' %r
>
> run_cmd(cmd)
HTH,
Marty
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