Using Python on a fork-less POSIX-like OS

[Jan Claeys]

On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 19:13 +0200, Barath Aron wrote:
> I intend to cross-compile Python v3.6.6 to Threos ( https://threos.io
>  ) operating system. Threos is supports a quite large set from 
> POSIX and C89/C99. Unfortunately, Threos lacks fork(2), but
> provides posix_spawn(3) instead. I already made some local changes
> in posixmodule.c to compile due to some features are detected 
> as present but actually not supported, like HAVE_FORK -- I blame
> autotools for this :-). I don't know, however, whether the Python
> shall cross-compile without issues.
> 
> My question is that the _posixsubprocess.c can be prepared to
> use posix_spawn(3) instead of fork(2)? Maybe the UNIX/Linux version
> can also benefit from it, see: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-
> team/ruby-posix-spawn

You might want to ask this on the python-dev mailing list.


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Jan Claeys