[Python-Dev] Python 1.6 status

[Fredrik Lundh]

>    * 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.)

$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Aug 23 1999, 14:42:39)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import os
>>> os.setsid
<built-in function setsid>

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