From: Constantin Berhard <constantin@exxxtremesys.lu>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:03:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: thread instead of multiprocessing for fire_and_forget
X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/saartuer.git/commitdiff_plain/19a7c2977daef47da6ad1bc0ca73010921f5122d

thread instead of multiprocessing for fire_and_forget
---

diff --git a/libtuer.py b/libtuer.py
index e31ce27..5b1221c 100644
--- a/libtuer.py
+++ b/libtuer.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import logging, logging.handlers, os, time, queue, threading, subprocess, multiprocessing
+import logging, logging.handlers, os, time, queue, threading, subprocess
 
 # logging function
 class Logger:
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ logger = Logger()
 # run a command asynchronously and log the return value if not 0
 # prefix must be a string identifying the code position where the call came from
 def fire_and_forget (cmd, log, prefix):
-	def _fire_and_forget (cmd, log, prefix):
+	def _fire_and_forget ():
 		with open("/dev/null", "w") as fnull:
 			retcode = subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=fnull, stderr=fnull)
 			if retcode is not 0:
 				log("%sReturn code %d at command: %s" % (prefix,retcode,str(cmd)))
-	p = multiprocessing.Process(target=_fire_and_forget, args=(cmd,log,prefix))
-	p.start()
+	t = threading.Thread(target=_fire_and_forget)
+	t.start()
 
 # Threaded callback class
 class ThreadFunction():