Client sockets without os.fork()

[Steve Holden]

"Larry" <ld @ nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MDqV8.426072$cQ3.29617 at sccrnsc01...
> When a client connects in unix/linux, I could simply use the os.fork()  to
> create a nice new process to deal with the newly requested session.
>
> I now have a need to do this in windows.  Can anyone relay a fairly easy
way
> to put the newly created socket into it's own thread so that it can go
about
> doing it's business while the orginal daemon can sit and listen for new
> connections?
>

Take a look a the standard library's CGIHTTPServer, which contains code to
handle the OS-dependent bits of starting a subsidiary process and reading
its output.

regards
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