fork problem

[Michael Hudson]

"DelPiccolo Ivano" <ivano.delpiccolo at degroof.be> writes:

> I have the following error when i try to fork :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "explorer_proxy.py", line 33, in ?
>     child = os.fork()
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fork'
> 
> Here is my code :
> child = os.fork()
>  if child == 0 :
>         print "\nEntering in child process"
> 
> Where is my error ?????

Trying to use on Windows a function that doesn't exist on Windows?

You can use cygwin if you're desperate, but I beleive fork() has some
issues there.

Cheers,
M.

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