Help a newbie use Python's OS module:
Kevin O'Gorman
kogorman at pacbell.net
Fri Oct 6 17:39:17 EDT 2000
I've got a pretty basic book, and online docs, and I've done
my best to RTFM, but I'm now at my frustration point.
I can use os.fork() to create a child process, but I cannot
get messages from the child to the parent through the pipe
I've created.
If anyone's got a little sample program that shows how this
is done, I'd sure appreciate it.
At the moment, my (non-working) version complains that the
parent's attemts to read the pipe are failing. It looks
like this:
#! /usr/bin/python
# $Id: fork.py,v 1.2 2000/10/06 04:17:32 kevin Exp kevin $
import string
import sys
import re
import os
print "Running $Id: fork.py,v 1.2 2000/10/06 04:17:32 kevin Exp kevin $"
osi=sys.stdin
oso=sys.stdout
ose=sys.stderr
rw=os.pipe()
r=rw[0]
w=rw[1]
print "Reading on",r,", and writing on",w
child=os.fork()
if child==0:
sys.stderr.write("In child\n")
os.close(1)
os.dup(w)
sys.stdout=os.fdopen(1,"w")
os.close(r)
os.close(w)
sys.stderr.write("Writing\n")
print "foo"
print "bar"
print "foobuar"
sys.stdout.close()
sys.exit(0)
os.close(0)
os.dup(r)
sys.stdin=os.fdopen(r)
os.close(r)
os.close(w)
print "Stdin is ",sys.stdin
print "about to read"
lin=sys.stdin.readline()
if not lin:
print "Read failed",lin
sys.exit(1)
while lin:
print lin
lin=sys.stdin.readline()
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