Bug#278947: No way to retrieve the exit status of a subprocess

[Daniel Burrows]

Package: python-vte
Severity: normal

  One of the basic things that a user of the vte widget is likely to want to 
do is to retrieve the exit status of the process that was run within it.  In 
the C library, this seems to be done by binding to the reaper's 
"child-exited" signal.  Unfortunately, since the reaper is not wrapped by 
python-vte, there isn't any way to read the child process' exit status from 
within Python (since the reaper does a waitpid() and consumes it).

  Ideally, the terminal's child-exited signal would pass this information 
along...but either way, ther needs to be a way to get at this information 
from the vte module.

  Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set 
to en_US)

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