[python-win32] daemonized child

Elias Fotinis efotinis at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 27 09:51:18 CEST 2009


From: "Antoine Martin"
> What is the best way to ensure that a child started with
> subprocess.Popen does not get killed when its parent terminates on win32?
> On Linux I can daemonize the child with fork()s and dup2()s
> But what about windows?

You don't have to do anything. The lifetime of a child process in Windows is 
not affected by that of its parent.



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