twisted.internet.process : API documentation

UNIX Process management.

Do NOT use this module directly - use reactor.spawnProcess() instead.

Maintainer: Itamar Shtull-Trauring

Function	reapAllProcesses	Reap all registered processes.
Function	registerReapProcessHandler	Register a process handler for the given pid, in case `reapAllProcesses` is called.
Function	unregisterReapProcessHandler	Unregister a process handler previously registered with `registerReapProcessHandler`.
Function	detectLinuxBrokenPipeBehavior	On some Linux version, write-only pipe are detected as readable. This function is here to check if this bug is present or not.
Class	ProcessWriter	(Internal) Helper class to write into a Process's input pipe.
Class	ProcessReader	ProcessReader
Class	Process	An operating-system Process.
Class	PTYProcess	An operating-system Process that uses PTY support.
Class	_BaseProcess	Base class for Process and PTYProcess.
Function	_listOpenFDs	Return an iterable of potentially open file descriptors.

def registerReapProcessHandler(pid, process): (source)

Parameters	pid	the pid of the process.
	process	a process handler.

def unregisterReapProcessHandler(pid, process): (source)

Unregister a process handler previously registered with registerReapProcessHandler.

def detectLinuxBrokenPipeBehavior(): (source)

On some Linux version, write-only pipe are detected as readable. This function is here to check if this bug is present or not.

See ProcessWriter.doRead for a more detailed explanation.

def _listOpenFDs(): (source)

Return an iterable of potentially open file descriptors.

This function returns an iterable over the contents of /dev/fd or /proc/<pid>/fd, if they're available on the platform. If they're not, the returned value is the range [0, maxfds], where 'maxfds' is at least 256.

t.i.process : module documentation