closing stdin, stdout and stderr

[Robin Becker]

Robin Becker wrote:
> Martijn Brouwer wrote:
> 
>> I am writing a unix daemon in python, so I want to close stdin, stdout
>> and stderr.
>> My first attempt was to the standard file descriptors using their
>> close() methods. After closing stdout, I could not print anymore, so
>> this seemed to work. However, later I noticed that they were not really
>> closed. When I close them using os.close(), it did work.
>> What is the difference between these two methods and what is the reason
>> behind it? It took me a day to find out why I could not log out after
>> starting the daemon.
>>
>> Martijn
>>
>>
>>
> I've had excellent results with variants of the cookbook entry at
> 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731
> 
but perhaps you're using a non unix OS, which will make that recipe wrong.

-- 
Robin Becker