[Python-Dev] os.wait unweirding. impetus

Hunter Peress hu.peress@mail.mcgill.ca
23 Sep 2002 11:00:12 -0500


The idea came from bash.
where the wait command will wait for all child processes.

Its clearly doable.
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 10:42, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > for i in a:
> >   print os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT,scr,["",str(i)])
> > 
> > for i in a:
> >   os.wait()
> > 
> > you have to do the second loop in order to wait for all children that u
> > spawned off. I think that os.wait() without any arguments should wait
> > for all chilren, not wait for the earliest executed child.
> 
> Go talk to the designers of Unix and the POSIX standard committee.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>