os.spawn

[Sylvain Thenault]

On 11 Sep 2001 18:05:13 GMT, Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Quoth syt at pegasus.logilab.fr (Sylvain Thenault):
>
>| how can I do for knowing what happend when I do an os.spawnv()
>|
>| for example, if i do
>|
>| import os
>| os.spawnv(P_WAIT, '/bin/echo', 'this is a spawn test')
>|
>| I can't see anything, and don't know what have been made...
>
>Normal return from os.spawnv should be 0.  Anything else indicates
>failure.
>
>   >>> print os.spawnv.__doc__
>   spawnv(mode, file, args) -> integer
>
>   Execute file with arguments from args in a subprocess.
>
>Args here should be a tuple or list like sys.argv:
>   os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, '/bin/echo', ('echo', 'this is a spawn test'))
>
>	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu

thanks, i was waiting for an exception in case of error 
does someone know why it isn't the default behaviour ?

BTW, this wasn't working because as exec*, the first item of args must be 
the called program's name ('echo' in this example)

-- 
Sylvain Thenault

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