[Python-Dev] fork or exec?

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/11/2013 2:25 AM, Ben Leslie wrote:

> Python is not UNIX, but I think if you are directly using the POSIX
> interfaces they should
> work (more or less) the same way the would if you were writing a C
> program. (Some of us
> still use Python to prototype things that will later be converted to C!).

I believe it has been the intent that if xxx is s syscall, then os.xxx 
should be a thin wrapper with the same defaults.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy