Guido van Rossum wrote:
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.
I wasn't talking about "portable" code, but about "porting" code to Win32. I happen to use an application which manages a few processes and spawns these using .fork(). It would nice to have a .fork() like API on Win32 to experiment with. Anyway, I would already be happy if I could just look at the code from ActiveState... if it's Perl all the way I probably don't want to look any further into this ;-) BTW, I'm not too familiar with IPC on Win32. What would be the best strategy to this on the Windows platforms ? I remember that Skip once posted a comparison of Unix Domain sockets and TCP Sockets on Unix which showed that UD sockets are much faster than TCP sockets. On Win32 these don't exist and I suppose that TCP sockets are too slow for my server. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/