Comments appreciated on Erlang inspired Process class.
Brian L. Troutwine
goofyheadedpunk at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 13:34:15 EDT 2007
Lately I've been tinkering around with Erlang and have begun to sorely want
some of its features in Python, mostly the ease at which new processes can be
forked off for computation. To that end I've coded up a class I call,
boringly enough, Process. It takes a function, its args and keywords and runs
the function in another process using os.fork. Processes can be treated as
callables to retrieve the return value of the passed in function.
The code is pasted here: http://deadbeefbabe.org/paste/4972. A simple
exposition of Process is included at the end of the code in some __main__
magic. (Note: The code will not run on any system which lacks os.fork and
spawns 100 child processes while running.)
I'd very much appreciate people to look the code over and give me their
reactions to it, or suggests for improvement. As it stands, I see three major
defects with the current implementation:
1) Process hangs forever if its child errors out.
2) Process isn't portable because of its use of os.fork().
3) Process should use AF_UNIX when available instead of TCP.
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blt
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