Portable Process Control (2 of 3)

• os.execv family

  • Doesn’t search system path, and doesn’t parse command lines
    os.execv("c:\\Winnt\\notepad.exe", \
    

("c:\\autoexec.bat",) )

• Does clobber your existing process - the call to os.execv() never returns!

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