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os.fork()

os.fork()

Fork a child process. Return 0 in the child and the child’s process id in the parent. If an error occurs OSError is raised.

Note that some platforms including FreeBSD <= 6.3 and Cygwin have known issues when using fork() from a thread.

Warning

See ssl for applications that use the SSL module with fork().

Availability: Unix.

Links:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/os.html#os.fork

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2025-01-10 15:47:30

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