os.fork() question?

[Erik Heneryd]

Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> Info at http://doc.python.org/ on os.fork() says that
>   it has 'unix' semantics (on a UNIX box) on return values
>   child pid in parent, 0 in child, no mention of failure?
> 
> So, what does it return on failure? I tried it under Linux
> with Python-2.3.4, after few thousand forks the system just hangs!
> (does not return/report fork failure)

It raises OSError.


Erik