First forking and then multithreading the interpreter?

[Aahz]

In article <20030515162922.71620098.bram at nospam.sara.nl>,
Bram Stolk  <bram at nospam.sara.nl> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know what bad things could happen if you first fork python,
>and then create threads in one of the processes? I would assume this is
>possible.

It's possible, but I know there are problems with it.  Unfortunately,
this is an area of Python I don't know well; you may be able to get some
help from Google.
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