how to pause a forked process

[Laurent POINTAL]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:17:40 -0600, j vickroy <jvickroy at sec.noaa.gov>
wrote:

>: Hello,
>: 
>: How can execution be paused in a child process?
>: 
>: This is what I tried:
>: 
>: import os
>: import time
>: 
>: pid = os .fork()
>: 
>: if pid == 0: # child
>:     # do some work
>:     time .sleep (5)
           ^ Is there really a space here?
>: 
>: else: # parent
>:     # do some work
>: 
>: The sleep() call is flagged as:
>:     AttributeError: sleep


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