sigchld vs. os.popen, os.command, etc.

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Niels Diepeveen <niels at endea.demon.nl>:
| Donn Cave schreef:
|> It's too bad select() can't wait for processes along with I/O, that
|> would be a nice solution in some cases.
|
| What if you pass the write end of an unused pipe to the child process?
| When the child terminates it will be closed and select() will return
| ready on the read end. At least that is what I would expect.

Yes, that's worth trying.

	Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
	donn at u.washington.edu