From UNIX to Win NT

[j vickroy]

Mark isn't here yet but his book (Python Programming on Win 32) is and I quote
(from page 35):

"
...
In many cases, the best solution is to rebuild this part of the application for
Windows.  On a typical Unix machine, creating new processes (as fork() does) is a
relatively cheap operation.  On Windows, howerver, the overhead of creating a new
process is significant, so solutions using this architecture on Windows won't
often scale or perform as you would hope.  Rewriting this portion of the
application to use multiple threads instead of multiple processes is often the
best solution for Windows.
"

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> In article <39606DAC.49A502DB at muc.das-werk.de>,
> Thomas Thiele  <thiele at muc.das-werk.de> wrote:
> >
> >The problem is I am using threads, fork and exec. And I want to have the
> >same behaviour using NT.
>
> You'll need to look at the Win32 extensions to do the fork/exec stuff.
> I've got zero experience with that, but hopefully either the docs are
> good enough or Mark Hammond will be by shortly.
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