Simple process IO capture (Was: "shell-commands" and python!) - process.py (0/1)

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ignacio at openservices.net
Tue Sep 25 18:42:33 EDT 2001


On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Paul Moore wrote:

> [BTW, I assume that avoiding the shell is an important requirement on Unix? It's
> less of an obvious thing to do on Win32, where a number of key commands like
> DIR, COPY, DEL, RENAME and MOVE are shell built-ins, and not normally available
> as separate EXEs]

It's not a requirement, but it's a really, Really, REALLY useful feature.

It's also handy for embedded systems that may not have a shell to speak of.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>





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