On 30/01/15 23:25, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Sturla Molden :
Only a handful of POSIX functions are required to be "fork safe", i.e.
callable on each side of a fork without an exec.
That is a pretty surprising statement. Forking without an exec is a
routine way to do multiprocessing.
I understand
Sturla Molden :
> Only a handful of POSIX functions are required to be "fork safe", i.e.
> callable on each side of a fork without an exec.
That is a pretty surprising statement. Forking without an exec is a
routine way to do multiprocessing.
I understand there are things to consider, but all sy
Andres Riancho wrote:
> Spawn, and I took that from the multiprocessing 3 documentation, will
> create a new process without using fork().
> This means that no memory
> is shared between the MainProcess and the spawn'ed sub-process created
> by multiprocessing.
If you memory map a segment with
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Can you explain what you see as the difference between "spawn" and "fork"
> in this context? Are you using Windows perhaps? I don't know anything
> obviously different between the two terms on Unix systems.
spawn is fork + exec.
Only a handful of POSIX functions are requ
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Andres Riancho
> wrote:
>>
>> The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn
>> processes [1] instead of forking, which is not present in the 2.7
>> version of the module.
>
>
> Can you ex
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Andres Riancho
> wrote:
>> The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn
>> processes [1] instead of forking, which is not present in the 2.7
>> version of the module.
>
> Can you explain
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Andres Riancho
wrote:
> The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn
> processes [1] instead of forking, which is not present in the 2.7
> version of the module.
>
Can you explain what you see as the difference between "spawn" and "fork"
in thi
List,
I've been searching around for a multiprocessing module backport from
3 to 2.7.x and the closest thing I've found was celery's billiard [0]
which seems to be a work in progress.
The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn
processes [1] instead of forking, which is not pr
