[Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency - offtopic

[Sokolov Yura]

Josiah Carlson wrote:

>Sokolov Yura <falcon at intercable.ru> wrote:
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>>Offtopic:
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>>Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
>>(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
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>>G:\Working\1>c:\Python24\python
>>Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
>>win32
>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> from os import fork
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>ImportError: cannot import name fork
>> >>>
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>Python for Windows, if I remember correctly, has never supported forking. 
>This is because the underlying process execution code does not have
>support for the standard copy-on-write semantic which makes unix fork
>fast.
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>Cygwin Python does support fork, but I believe this is through a literal
>copying of the memory space, which is far slower than unix fork.
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>Until Microsoft adds kernel support for fork, don't expect standard
>Windows Python to support it.
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> - Josiah
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That is what i mean...

sorry for being noisy...