subprocess confusion

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Tim Arnold <tiarno at sas.com> wrote:
>  Just discovered that my subprocess call with the preexec_fn wasn't doing 
>  what I thought.
>  If 'machine' value is different than the current machine name, I want to 
>  remsh the command to that machine, but obviously I misunderstood the 
>  preexec_fn arg.
> 
>  Should I just put the remsh in the actual command instead of
>  preexec_fn?

Yes.

The preexec_fn is run after the fork() but before the exec().  Ie a
new process has been made, but it hasn't started your task yet.

For example a classic use of preexec_fn is

  preexec_fn=os.setsid

You seem to be thinking it is pre-pending something to your command
line which isn't how it works.

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick