Start new process by function ?

[George Sakkis]

Is it possible to start a new process by specifying a function call (in similar function to thread
targets) instead of having to write the function in a separate script and call it through os.system
or os.spawn* ? That is, something like

def foo(): pass
os.spawn(foo)

Thanks in advance,

George


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[Mathias Waack]

Is it possible to start a new process by specifying a function call
(in similar function to thread targets) instead of having to write
the function in a separate script and call it through os.system or
os.spawn* ? That is, something like

def foo(): pass
os.spawn(foo)

Just starting is easy:

def spawn(f):
if os.fork() == 0:
f()
sys.exit(0)

But I'd expect you would like to get some return values from f...

Mathias