[Python-Dev] Why spawnvp not implemented on Windows? (original) (raw)
Alexey Borzenkov snaury at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 17:15:07 CEST 2006
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Hi all,
I've been looking at python 2.5 today and what I notices is absense of spawnvp with this comment in os.py:
At the moment, Windows doesn't implement spawnvp[e],
so it won't have spawnlp[e] either.
I'm wondering, why so? Searching MSDN I can see that these functions are implemented in CRT:
spawnvp: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/275khfab.aspx spawnvpe: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h565xwht.aspx
I can also see that spawnvp and spawnvpe are currently wrapped in posixmodule.c, but for some reason on OS/2 only. Forgive me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it work when
#if defined(PYOS_OS2)
is changed to
#if defined(PYOS_OS2) || defined(MS_WINDOWS)
around spawnvp and spawnvpe wrappers and in posix_methods? At least when I did it with my copy, nt.spawnvp seems to work fine...
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