strange problem with fork and Python-2.1

[Armin Steinhoff]

No ideas ??


In article <9doeqo031di at drn.newsguy.com>, Armin says...
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>Hello all,
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>I have a strange problem with Python2.1 running QNX6.
>The test script test_fork1.py returns with following result:
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># python -t test_fork1.py
>/* sys.path include in script ... */
>['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.1', '/usr/local/lib/python2.1/Lib/lib-tk',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2.1', '/usr/local/
>lib/python2.1/lib/python2.1/plat-qnx6',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2.1/lib-tk',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2 .1/lib-dynload']
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "test_fork1.py", line 76, in ?
>    main()
>  File "test_fork1.py", line 55, in main
>    cpid = os.fork()
>OSError: [Errno 89] Function not implemented
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>That's very strange ... because it works in the interactive mode =:-(
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
># python
>Python 2.1 (#16, May 11 2001, 18:37:57)
>[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on qnx6
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>>>> import sys, os
>>>>sys.path
>['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.1', '/usr/local/lib/python2.1/Lib/lib-tk',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2.1',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2.1/plat-qnx6',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2.1/lib-tk',
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib/python2 .1/lib-dynload']
>>>>
>>>> os.fork
><built-in function fork>
>>>> os.fork()
>6512990
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>Any ideas where to look?
>
>Armin
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