With what can I try and see what the PID is when using popen() or popen2() ?
One thing that I noticed now is that when using popen() and the
sys.exit(). The command is completed before my Python shell is
terminated and if I use popen2(), sys.exit() works immediately but the
ping command runs still as a process untill completed.
Alan Gauld wrote:
>> >>> f = os.popen2('ping 192.168.8.85 -c 100 > cap1.txt')
>> >>> f[0].write('\x03')
>>
>> Thank command works, but 'f[1]' is in read-only mode and I can't
>> write to it.
>> My command in the background is still not terminated.
>
>
> Thats almost certainly because ping never reads its input.
> In that case you'll need to send a kill signal to the process and
> to do that you need to find the process ID. I'm not sure if popen()
> provides access to the PID but if not you could either search for it
> (this might be too slow) or just drop down to use fork rather than
> popen, as fork will return the PID.
>
>
> Alan G.
>
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