daemons and GUIs Oh my

[Michael Hudson]

"bowman" <bowman at montana.com> writes:

> "Timothy Grant" <tjg at exceptionalminds.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.986858056.27376.python-list at python.org...
> > boxes for command line options. My understanding is that spawn
> > are only supported on Windows boxes, is that a
> > misunderstanding?
> 
> The 2.0 docs claim its available on Unix.

It is.

> Or you could try a fork and exec from the child.

And that's exactly what it does.

Cheers,
M.

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