posix.rst

OS-specifics

Note that satella's posix submodule is a deprecated alias for os

Note that in blatant disregard of this name's module some of these routines will work on Windows. So, a routine is available on Windows unless stated otherwise.

whereis

suicide

Kill your process (and your process group). Does not work on Windows (NotImplementedError). See issue #37 on GitHub.

daemonize

Become a daemonized process. Does not work on Windows (OSError).

hang_until_sig

Sleep until a signal is received.

is_running_as_root

Return if running as root. Routine unavailable on Windows (OSError).

PIDFileLock

This is meant to acquire a lock on a file.