[Python-Dev] Using Python on a fork-less POSIX-like OS (original) (raw)

Barath Aron baratharon at caesar.elte.hu
Mon Jul 30 04:26:30 EDT 2018


On 07/30/2018 10:23 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Python 3.8 will support os.posixspawn(). I would like to see it used whenever possible instead of fork+exec, since it's faster and it can be safer on some platforms. Pablo Salgado is your guy for that.

Victor

Awesome! Will this backported to 2.7? Or people should forget 2.7?

Aron



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