Fork() and exec() dont work

[Maciej Dziardziel]

blahman (blah at blah.blah) wrote:

> i m using Windows XP, and by tomorrow i will have have fedora core
> installed too. the problem is, when i use these "fork() and exec()" my
> windows doesnt do anything, python gives an error about the module,
> the kind of error when u know u r wrong.
> 
> is it because these commands work on linux?

as documentation says:

fork(  )
 Fork a child process. Return 0 in the child, the child's process id in the
parent. Availability: Macintosh, Unix. 

 
> if so, is it better for me to stick with fedora for my python programs
> or use windows?

You can achive the same thing in windows by taking different approach,
but i would say that Linux is way more programmer-friendly (especially
Debian ;-)

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