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[Aahz Maruch]

In article <37606565.5A93BCE9 at compaq.com>,
Greg Ewing  <greg.ewing at compaq.com> wrote:
>Arne Mueller wrote:
>> 
>>                     chfds.remove(i)
>>                     os.waitpid(chpids[i], os.WNOHANG)
>>                     del chpids[i]
>
>If you're explicitly waiting for a particular child, *don't* use
>WNOHANG, because you *want* to block until that child has exited --
>which it may not have done yet, even though it has written its data.

I can't speak to Arne's situation, but I'm about to rewrite a chunk of
code to fork off a specific single child process precisely because I
*don't* want the parent to block while this code executes, but I still
want to reap the child later (and perform some final cleanup).
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