Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: No. On Windows the only way to start a new executable is to create a new process (with the CreateProcess function, which all spawn* and exec* functions ultimately call), and this yields a new PID. This is a fundamental difference with unix, where the only way to create a process is to clone the current one with fork().
And yes, this makes launchers more difficult to write on Windows. For a discussion see the paragraph "Process Launching" in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/ ---------- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc resolution: -> invalid status: open -> pending _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13792> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
