Paul Boddie wrote: > Simon Wittber wrote: > > Michael wrote: > > > Also, Paul Boddie posted a module for parallel systems a while back as > > > well > > > which might be useful (at least for ideas): > > > * http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/parallel > > > > > I've just noticed that os.fork is not available on Win32. Ouch. > > Sorry! My motivation was to support operating systems that I personally > care about and which also have solutions for transparent process > migration, which I believe could be used in conjunction with the > pprocess module for better-than-thread parallelisation.
Ah don't be sorry! I don't care about Win32 a whole lot either, its just that most of my target market use Win32... > Rumour has it that recent versions of Windows provide fork-like > semantics through a system call. Your mission is to integrate this > transparently into the standard library's os.fork function. ;-) I'm not sure I'm up to this kind of low level stuff, though if the itch really starts to _itch_, I might have a crack at scratching it. :-) -Sw -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
