Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > using multiple processes cause some > > headaches with frozen distributions (PyInstaller, py2exe, etc.), like those > > usually found on Windows, specifically because Windows does not have fork(). > > Isn't that just a problem with Windows generally? I don't > see what the method of packaging has to do with it. > > Also, I've seen it suggested that there may actually be > a way of doing something equivalent to a fork in Windows, > even though it doesn't have a fork() system call as such. > Does anyone know more about this?
Cygwin emulates fork() by creating a shared mmap, creating a new child process, copying the contents of the parent process' memory to the child process (after performing the proper allocations), then hacks up the child process' call stack. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
