[Python-Dev] Python 1.6 status
David Beazley
beazley@cs.uchicago.edu
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:24:24 -0600 (CST)
Andrew M. Kuchling writes:
> Guido van Rossum writes:
> >I'm hoping for several kind of responses to this email:
>
> * Go through the O'Reilly POSIX book and draw up a list of missing
> POSIX functions that aren't available in the posix module. This
> was sparked by Greg Ward showing me a Perl daemonize() function
> he'd written, and I realized that some of the functions it used
> weren't available in Python at all. (setsid() was one of them, I
> think.)
>
I second this! This was one of the things I noticed when doing the
Essential Reference Book. Assuming no one has done it already,
I wouldn't mind volunteering to take a crack at it.
Cheers,
Dave