[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Open issues/questions (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Aug 2 14:37:08 CEST 2013


Le Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:30:56 +0200, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> a écrit :

Is it possible to implement atfork on Windows?

A Python lock would be ignored by other C threads. It is unsafe if Python is embedded.

It is unsafe if Python is embedded and the embedding application uses fork() + exec().

Regards

Antoine.



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