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Author pitrou
Recipients giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2013-10-12.16:08:33
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> Honestly, I think the extra complexity and non-portability isn't worth it.

That's what I think too.
If we want to avoid polling, there's another approach:
- fork() a first time
- fork() in the first child
- exec() in the second child
- in the first child, call waitpid() and then write() the return code to
a fd
- in the parent, wait on the fd using select() or poll()
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2013-10-12 16:08:33pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, vstinner, giampaolo.rodola, neologix
2013-10-12 16:08:33pitroulinkissue12187 messages
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