Steve Dower added the comment:
Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered
for distutils.
If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and
reopen it. If
John Malmberg added the comment:
Note that Python directly supports Unixes which supply fork() and Microsoft
Windows that supplies spawn*() methods.
So as long as a platform supports either the fork() or the the Microsoft
Windows spawn() methods, there should not be barriers implementing
New submission from John Malmberg:
Distutils currently can not handle a Posix platform that does not implement
fork().
This patch retries with the _spawn_nt to use the spawn() methods if fork() is
not implemented.
A platform that does not implement fork() can provide spawn*() methods for
Ned Deily added the comment:
As far as I can tell, a Posix-compliant system is required to implement fork().
Which platform doesn't?
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John Malmberg added the comment:
There are multiple degrees of Posix compliance.
While X/Open documents the Posix requirements for implementing fork(), so far I
have not found anything that requires that fork() be present.
Configure tests for c-python also test for the presence of fork().
