Josiah Carlson wrote: >Sokolov Yura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Offtopic: >> >>Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] >>(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. >> >>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 >> >>> >> >> > >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. > >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. > >Until Microsoft adds kernel support for fork, don't expect standard >Windows Python to support it. > > - Josiah > > > > > That is what i mean...
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