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Jim Dodgen <jim@dodgen.us> writes:

> I'm have problems redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null in a
> program that does a fork and exec.

You may be interested in the ‘python-daemon’ library
<URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>. It takes care of all
the fiddly bits to turn your program into a well-behaved Unix daemon.

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