Starting other processes in a view gives me some weird results.

[namename12]

I cannot start process as daemon.

This error is similar to this thread:
​http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/2d2e20ccd394297b?pli=1

Django hangs when I execute this code:

def start(request):
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
                output = Popen(["/usr/local/tomcat/bin/jboss.sh"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
                foo ="a"
                return render_to_response('cms/templates/list.html', {'logs': foo})

        else:
                return HttpResponseRedirect("/accounts/login")

[namename12]

def start(request):<br>

if request.user.is_authenticated():<br>

output = Popen(usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh, stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]<br>
foo ="a"<br>
return render_to_response('cms/templates/list.html', {'logs': foo})<br>

else:<br>

return HttpResponseRedirect("/accounts/login")<br>

[Jacob]

I'm not sure this is a bug at all. That is, Popen.communicate() is supposed to block until stdin reaches EOF (​http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.communicate). And that's exactly what happens when I spawn processes from a Django view: when the process completes, so does the view.

[stevecrozz@…]

I'd call this a bug, and its affecting me.

The django development server is able to start a background process, but for some reason it must block until the sub process dies. Place something like this in a view and you'll get your response 5 seconds later, Popen.communicate() is not needed to reproduce it:

subprocess.Popen(['/bin/sleep', '5'])
return HttpResponse(u'That sure took a while!')

Also see #4953 and #3712

[Alex Gaynor]

This bug was closed by a core developer, if you disagree please bring this up for discussion ont he django-development mailiing list.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.1 deleted