manipulating child processes under Windows

[Syver Enstad]

"Colin Brown" <cbrown at metservice.com> wrote in message news:<3cfd6d6d$1 at news.nz.asiaonline.net>...
> "Douglas Alan" <nessus at mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:lcptz7zw0m.fsf at gaffa.mit.edu...
> >
> > (2) What's the best way for me to solve the problem.  I.e., what's the
> >     best way to get my Python script to wait for the real program to
> >     terminate?
> >
> > |>oug
> 
> To locate a grandchild process and get its pid and handle on Win2000 you
> could examine the output of the freeware program "pslist -t"
> (www.sysinternals.com). After that use win32 routines as usual.

I thought that the program was already running and used some form of
interprocess communication to send some information to the other
program and then exit.