Comments appreciated on Erlang inspired Process class.

[Brian L. Troutwine]

Lately I've been tinkering around with Erlang and have begun to sorely want 
some of its features in Python, mostly the ease at which new processes can be 
forked off for computation. To that end I've coded up a class I call, 
boringly enough, Process. It takes a function, its args and keywords and runs 
the function in another process using os.fork. Processes can be treated as 
callables to retrieve the return value of the passed in function.

The code is pasted here: http://deadbeefbabe.org/paste/4972. A simple 
exposition of Process is included at the end of the code in some __main__ 
magic. (Note: The code will not run on any system which lacks os.fork and 
spawns 100 child processes while running.)

I'd very much appreciate people to look the code over and give me their 
reactions to it, or suggests for improvement. As it stands, I see three major 
defects with the current implementation: 

	1) Process hangs forever if its child errors out.

	2) Process isn't portable because of its use of os.fork().

	3) Process should use AF_UNIX when available instead of TCP.

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