[Python-Dev] pthreads, fork, import, and execvp

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Fri Sep 11 08:06:58 CEST 2009


On 25Jul2009 10:25, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Wouters<thomas at python.org> wrote:
| > So attached (and at http://codereview.appspot.com/96125/show ) is a
| > preliminary fix, correcting the problem with os.fork(), os.forkpty() and
| > os.fork1(). This doesn't expose a general API for C code to use, for two
| > reasons: it's not easy, and I need this fix more than I need the API change
| > :-) (I actually need this fix myself for Python 2.4, but it applies fairly
| > cleanly.)
| 
| This looks good to me.
[...]

Where's this stand with respect to the upcoming Python 2.6.3?
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