[Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus() (original) (raw)
A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Wed Mar 14 13:47:31 CET 2007
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:55:07PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
What does that buy us?
subprocess offers better error-trapping, I think, and additional features such as closing all file descriptors after forking. At work, I found this fixed a number of bugs in our daemons code because if you were starting something long-running, it might keep a socket open and cause problems later.
--amk
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