[Python-Dev] Python 1.6 status

[David Beazley]

Andrew M. Kuchling writes:
> Guido van Rossum writes:
> >I'm hoping for several kind of responses to this email:
> 
>    * Go through the O'Reilly POSIX book and draw up a list of missing
> POSIX functions that aren't available in the posix module.  This
> was sparked by Greg Ward showing me a Perl daemonize() function
> he'd written, and I realized that some of the functions it used
> weren't available in Python at all.  (setsid() was one of them, I
> think.)
> 

I second this!   This was one of the things I noticed when doing the
Essential Reference Book.   Assuming no one has done it already,
I wouldn't mind volunteering to take a crack at it.

Cheers,

Dave