[Chicago] Popen/subprocess/Poll Question.

[Martin Maney]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:55:24AM -0500, Samir Faci wrote:
> I'm running a process that's usually takes a while.... (in the best
> case scenario a few hours... going on days occasionally)
> 
> I'm presuming I need to spawn a thread for the process so it doesn't block.

Thread-on-the-brain disease?  Why not run it as a separate process? 
Threads are just processes that can mess each other up almost without
trying.  :-/

> Now, what I'm trying to accomplish is to have it print its output to a
> screen AND let me capture its output.  I'd like to see the output.
> I'd also like to see the output as its processing, not capture it, and
> print it to screen and then write to file.

There's an Anciente Unixe command that does this very thing, named
"tee".  Just sayin'

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