[Python-Dev] Using Python on a fork-less POSIX-like OS

Barath Aron baratharon at caesar.elte.hu
Mon Jul 30 04:26:30 EDT 2018


On 07/30/2018 10:23 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Python 3.8 will support os.posix_spawn(). I would like to see it used 
> whenever possible instead of fork+exec, since it's faster and it can 
> be safer on some platforms. Pablo Salgado is your guy for that.
>
> Victor 

Awesome! Will this backported to 2.7? Or people should forget 2.7?

Aron



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