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.
SUA is a version of UNIX hidden inside Windows Vista and Windows 7 (except in Home and Home Premium), but very few seem to know of it. SUA (Subsystem for Unix based Applications) is formerly known as Interix, which is a certified version of UNIX based on OpenBSD. If you go to http://www.interopsystems.com (a website run by Interop Systems Inc., a company owned by Microsoft), you will find a lot of common unix tools prebuilt for SUA, including Python 2.6.2. The NT-kernel supports copy-on-write fork with a special system call (ZwCreateProcess in ntdll.dll), which is what SUA's implementation of fork() uses. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list