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How do I implement some logic that will allow me to reproduce on Windows the functionality that I have on Linux with the fork() system call, using Python?
I'm specifically trying to execute a method on the SAPI Com component, while continuing the other logic in the main thread without blocking or waiting.
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Microsoft Windows does not support the fork-exec model, as it does not have a system call analogous to fork() . The spawn() family of functions declared in process. h can replace it in cases where the call to fork() is followed directly by exec() .
Fork system call is used for creating a new process, which is called child process, which runs concurrently with the process that makes the fork() call (parent process). After a new child process is created, both processes will execute the next instruction following the fork() system call.
The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine. It runs on both Unix and Windows.
Use the python multiprocessing module which will work everywhere.
Here is a IBM developerWords article that shows how to convert from os.fork() to the multiprocessing module.
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