[Python-Dev] pthreads, fork, import, and execvp (original) (raw)

Yair Chuchem yairchu at gmail.com
Tue May 16 10:09:18 CEST 2006


On 5/16/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Rotem should simply avoid to fork() in the toplevel code of a module. this is not what happened. we called subprocess which itself called fork.

as a subprocess bug this could be easily fixed by moving the import in "os._execve". we have made that fix locally and it fixes the problem.

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