On Mar 7, 4:15 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're using Python on a web server to do something > complicated. You must suffer. > > Are you trying to fork off a subprocess in a multithreaded > program? That's unlikely to work. The sematics differ > from OS to OS (Solaris forks all the threads, most other > operating systems don't; most UNIX-based OSs copy all the > open file descriptors, but some give you control of which > open files are passed), and Python may not be thread-safe > in that area.
I see the potential problem in general, but in my case every thread is exclusively responsible for the subprocesses it forks; no subprocess is inherited from the main thread or is shared in among the worker threads. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
