Neil Hodgson wrote:
Getting? I'm very old. I think. But even if I had a memory, I usually ignore Unix-specific posts (i.e., I can't run code with a .fork(), so can only sit back & admire the perversity of those who both can & do <wink>).
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.) Can this code be grabbed from somewhere ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/