Problem with spawning an external process

[Nico Kruger]

Daniel, thanks for your input. What version of the JDK/JRE and Python
are you using?

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 11:53, Daniel Nogradi wrote:
> > > I want to execute a command (in this case, and it seems to be
> > > significant, a Java program) in a thread in Python. When I execute the
> > > java binary in the main python thread, everything runs correctly. But
> > > when I try and execute java in a thread, java segfaults. I am using
> > > Python 2.3.3 and trying to run the java binary from the 1.4.2 SDK from
> > > Sun.
> > > Here is the output that I get on my machine:
> > > [nico@ script]$ python testcrash2.py
> > > In main thread
> > >        <JAVA USAGE INFO STRIPPED>
> > > PID: 32107  signal: 0   return code: 1
> > > In Thread
> > > PID: 32116  signal: 11   return code: 0
> 
> 
> Your code works fine here both in the main and the new thread. Here is
> the output:
> 
> In main thread
> <java complaining about no arguments>
> PID: 5990  signal: 0   return code: 1
> In Thread
> <java complaining about no arguments>
> Waiting...PID: 5999  signal: 0   return code: 1
> ...Finished
> 
> So I guess the problem is somewhere else.
-- 
Regards,
Nico.


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