[Python-Dev] Fork on Win32 - was (test_fork1 failing...) (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:04:53 +0200

David Ascher wrote:

> IIRC ActiveState contributed to Perl a version of fork that works on > Win32. Has anyone looked at this? Could it be grabbed for Python? This would > help heal one of the more difficult platform rifts. Emulating fork for Win32 > looks quite difficult to me but if its already done... Sigh. Me tired. The message I posted a few minutes ago was actually referring to the system() work, not the fork() work. I agree that the fork() emulation isn't Pythonic.

What about porting os.kill() to Windows (see my other post with changed subject line in this thread) ? Wouldn't that make sense ? (the os.spawn() APIs do return PIDs of spawned processes, so calling os.kill() to send signals to these seems like a feasable way to control them)

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