Application monitor

[Mike Meyer]

"dcrespo" <dcrespo at gmail.com> writes:
> Main application starts
> This one starts the App Monitor of itself. (This means that if Main
> Application closes, the App Monitor restart it)
>
> And viceversa means that if App Monitor closes, the Main application
> restart it.
>
> How can I accomplish this?
>
> I've been thinking in wx.SingleInstanceChecker (from wxPython GUI
> library). If it doesn't exist, then call os.system(<program_name>). But
> I don't know if there's a better way.

"Better" depends on what your requirements are. Personally, I use init
as an app monitor. It doesn't need monitoring - if it's dead, your
Unix has a lot worse problems than one application being down.

     <mike
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