[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Open issues/questions

[Antoine Pitrou]

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.