[Tutor] Python Daemon

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Sheila King wrote:

> os.fork() is not available on Windows machines.

That's because they don't fork.

> Is there an alternate way to handle this for Windows machines? Or, is
> it impossible to write daemons for Windows machines?

I'm sure there's some analogous process on Windows; I'm not a Windows
programmer.

I know there are functions like os.fork() for MacOS, but don't know if
it's implemented on the MacOS version of Python.

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