fork, exec and wait on WINDOWS?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Nigel,

o AFAIK there is no fork in Windows. You need to use threads.
o If you install the win32 package you can use CreateProcess
o The os module has mane exec* functions which are also available on
Windows.


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"Nigel W. Moriarty" <NWMoriarty at lbl.gov> wrote in message
news:3A774C91.40835F30 at lbl.gov...
> I have an app that needs to run on UNIX and Windows.  I have the UNIX
fork() and exec() setup but how doe one do a similar thing in Windows?
>
> Nigel
>