manipulating child processes under Windows

[Andres Rosado]

At 12:03 PM 6/4/2002 -0400, Douglas Alan wrote:
> > I managed to do the contrary with one of the spawnl() function. Pass as a
> > first parameter the os.P_WAIT to wait for the program to finish.
>
>But this will only wait for the child process to finish.  In my case,
>the child process is just a stub program that starts up a grandchild
>process and then terminates.  I need my Python program to wait for the
>grandchild process to terminate.  spawnl() doesn't provide a way of
>doing this.

In that case, you need the process information of the grandchild and a call 
for the funcion os.wait(). Sorry I can't help anymore, but I don't know how 
to get that information in Windows. :(


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