On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 08:20:02PM -0500, Domsch, Matt wrote: > One fundamental question I have though is, how far back is "old" > python support needed, and how critical is maintaining functionality > on Windows? One patch series, which parallelizes uploads to multiple > destinations, uses os.fork() and os.wait(), which aren't available on > Windows. One _could_ rewrite the code to use the multiprocessing > module, but that's not available until python 2.6. Or I suppose it > could be written to use threading (though the GIL could be > problematic). For my use case, in Fedora, I don't care about Windows > support at present, but as the patch is written now, it always uses > os.fork() to do the upload half of local->remote, so it > would break on Windows.
I figured out how to conditionalize based on presence of os.fork(), and either use a parent/child model, or a single process model, as available. I've committed that patch to my parallel-destinations [1] branch now. [1] https://github.com/mdomsch/s3cmd/tree/parallel-destinations Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ S3tools-general mailing list S3tools-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/s3tools-general
