On 21 ago, 21:30, Seun Osewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to cause this sort of thing to happen on Windows. > Specifically, I'm looking for a way to cause multiple processes to > accept new connections on a bound socket. on UNIX, I can just fork() > after binding the server socket to a port and the children can > accept() on that same socket, but on Windows, I don't know how to make > that work. Any ideas? Thanks!
Sockets are inherited by default, at least on any more-or-less-recent Windows version (that is, not on Win9x). There is a specific Winsock function (WSADuplicateSocket) and you can use the generic DuplicateHandle too with bInheritHandle=TRUE. Read about this on Microsoft site <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ library/ms683463.aspx> Note: Better to post a NEW message instead of replying to this old thread. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
