Process monitoring

[John Abel]

gsteff wrote:

>Hey, I'm working on a Python program that will launch some other
>non-Python process using os.spawn (in the os.P_NOWAIT mode) and then
>basically wait for it to finish (while doing some other stuff in the
>interim).  Normally, the new process will signal that it's done by
>writing to a file, but I'd like to also find out if the new process
>died unexpectedly.  Anyone know any preferrable ways to do this?
>
>Greg Steffensen
>
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>
If you're using 2.4, have a look at the subprocess module.

J