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Thanks, Jean-Paul - is there any way to do it without using Twisted,
since I am not very familiar with it? (i.e. just using the os library)
Thanks.

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2006 07:34:23 -0700, D <duncanm255 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello, I need to write a server program that performs the following
> >tasks:
> >
> >1)  Listens on TCP port 5555 for a connection
> >2)  When client connects, launches application (for example, vi), then
> >closes connection with client
> >3)  Goes back to listening on TCP port 5555 for an incoming connection
>
> Untested:
>
>   from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor
>
>   class ViRunner(protocol.Protocol):
>       def connectionMade(self):
>           reactor.spawnProcess(
>               None,
>               '/usr/bin/setsid',
>               ['setsid', '/usr/bin/vi'])
>           self.transport.loseConnection()
>
>   f = protocol.ServerFactory()
>   f.protocol = ViRunner
>   reactor.listenTCP(5555, f)
>   reactor.run()
> 
> Jean-Paul