> > IIRC ActiveState contributed to Perl a version of fork that works > > on Win32. Has anyone looked at this? Could it be grabbed for > > Python? This would help heal one of the more difficult platform > > rifts. Emulating fork for Win32 looks quite difficult to me but if > > its already done... > This would indeed be a *very* useful addition and help porting > os.fork() applications to Win32. (Ok, in the long run they would > have to be converted to multi-threaded apps due to the process > creation overhead on Win32, but for short term porting to Win32 > this would be a Cool Thing, IMHO.) I have only one word: yuck! Portable Python code should not rely on fork. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
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