Re: multiprocessing module backport from 3 to 2.7 - spawn feature

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Date	2015-01-28 12:06 -0600
Subject	Re: multiprocessing module backport from 3 to 2.7 - spawn feature
From	Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Andres Riancho <andres.riancho@gmail.com>
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 this context? Are you using Windows perhaps? I don't know anything
obviously different between the two terms on Unix systems.

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