detached subprocess

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Mon May 23 11:04:14 EDT 2005


Robin Becker wrote:
.....
> before the child ends its sleep. Of course it may be that it's just the handles 
> that are being held.

After further tests with procexp it seems that the parent is allowed to die, but 
its output is held up (perhaps apache is waiting on an eof) until the child dies.

It would seem prudent to allow the mswindows version to control the 
bInheritHandles flag in some way.
-- 
Robin Becker




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