>>>>> sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> (s) wrote: >s> On 25 Aug, 01:26, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: >>> That's because it doesn't use copy-on-write. Thereby losing most of its >>> advantages. I don't know SUA, but I have vaguely heard about it.
>s> SUA is a version of UNIX hidden inside Windows Vista and Windows 7 >s> (except in Home and Home Premium), but very few seem to know of it. >s> SUA (Subsystem for Unix based Applications) is formerly known as >s> Interix, which is a certified version of UNIX based on OpenBSD. If you >s> go to http://www.interopsystems.com (a website run by Interop Systems >s> Inc., a company owned by Microsoft), you will find a lot of common >s> unix tools prebuilt for SUA, including Python 2.6.2. >s> The NT-kernel supports copy-on-write fork with a special system call >s> (ZwCreateProcess in ntdll.dll), which is what SUA's implementation of >s> fork() uses. I have heard about that also, but is there a Python implementation that uses this? (Just curious, I am not using Windows.) -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
