[Zope] Problems Executing pdftk from within zope.

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Withers wrote at 2006-4-10 18:16 +0100:
>Jerry Westrick wrote:
>> When executed from within zope, 
>> (this i've done via external command that executes os.system(...))
>> A task is started to executed it, but the task hangs.
>
>os.system will spew to stdout, which a daemon process like Zope probably 
>won't enjoy much.

If Zope really runs as daemon (on *nix), "stdout" and "stderr"
are redirected to "/dev/null". Output will simply be discarded.

By the way, "stdin" will be "/dev/null", too.

-- 
Dieter