I was trying to use the multiproccessing  Pool module to do some background
processing
after a web request.  Seems to work fine on Linux, but on windows the
process
basically ends up trying to restart the entire web server, which fails
since the listening port
is occupied, and never ends up calling the requested functions.

The multiprocessing docs emphasize that the "__main__" module be protected
with the usual if __name__ == "__main__", so that it can be loaded without
running
all initialization code again.    This seems to be what is happening in the
windows
case.  We load a new sub-process which tries to start the web-server all
over again.

I poked around the paster code a bit, but couldn't really find the answer.

Has anybody had any luck using  multiprocessing on BOTH unix and windows in
a pylons
project?

Thx,
Kris