multiprocessing module

[kris]

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