Re: [Python-Dev] pthreads, fork, import, and execvp

On 5/16/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:

Rotem should simply avoid to fork() in the toplevel code of a module.

this is not what happened. we called subprocess which itself called fork. as a subprocess bug this could be easily fixed by moving the import in "os._execve". we have made that fix locally and it fixes the problem. cheers