[triangle-zpug] Weird platform dependent python error: forking and pseudoterminals

[T. Bryan]

On Friday 14 July 2006 11:22, Chris Rossi wrote:
> Hi, I'm observing some weird behavior and have written the following
> test program to demonstrate:

No idea what's going on.  Sorry.  :)

> ( pid, fd ) = pty.fork()

Is there a reason you're doing it this way?

> Anybody have any idea what's going on here?  Is there a better way to
> fork and capture the output of the child process?

Well, do you *have* to pty.fork() for some reason?  Why not use the subprocess 
module (or one of the older ones it was meant to replace)?

---Tom