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in thread daemon/fork: defunct parent not going away nicely

thanks for the background and link.

I remember this same issue years ago with a cgi-script used to start a daemon process, but kept the browser progress waiting, even tho the request had "finished".

I just closed STDIN/OUT/ERR in the child before it does anything.
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