[Python-ideas] Porting os.fork to Windows?

Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no
Tue Feb 17 12:57:55 CET 2009


To my astonishment, I just found out this:

The Windows-port of tcsh has an implementation of fork on top of the 
Windows API, and the license is BSD (unlike Cygwin's GPL'd fork).

It would be interesting to try this with Python.

Here is the source:

http://tcsh.sourcearchive.com/documentation/6.14.00-7/fork_8c-source.html
http://tcsh.sourcearchive.com/documentation/6.14.00-7/forkdata_8h-source.html


Sturla Molden








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