Message 93057 - Python tracker

Message93057

Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis, ronaldoussoren
Date	2009-09-24.07:30:16
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> This version uses posix_spawn rather than execv to start the real > interpreter. In what way is that better? It creates a new process (IIUC); therefore, I think that using it is worse than using execv. Anybody killing the pythonw process would only kill the wrapper. > The main advantage of the new implementation is that 'arch > -ppc pythonw' works as expected, with the current version of pythonw the > 'arch' command only affects the pythonw executable and not the real > interpreter. I suppose this would also be possible through execv?

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> This version uses posix_spawn rather than execv to start the real 
> interpreter. 

In what way is that better? It creates a new process (IIUC); therefore,
I think that using it is worse than using execv. Anybody killing the
pythonw process would only kill the wrapper.

> The main advantage of the new implementation is that 'arch 
> -ppc pythonw' works as expected, with the current version of pythonw the 
> 'arch' command only affects the pythonw executable and not the real 
> interpreter.

I suppose this would also be possible through execv?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2009-09-24 07:30:18	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, ronaldoussoren
2009-09-24 07:30:16	loewis	link	issue6834 messages
2009-09-24 07:30:16	loewis	create