os.system easy question

[Oleg Broytmann]

On 23 Jan 2001, Huw Lynes wrote:
> os.system("program %s" % filename)
>
> which would be fine if the program exited after running,
> however it doesn't. So the script stops when program is run
> for the first time. So the question is how to kill the
> external program after it has run. Or alternatively how to
> run an external program in such a way that the script will
> not halt.

   But why does not the program finished?

> This is running on linux BTW.

   fork + timeout

Oleg.
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