diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_benchmarks.py b/Doc/includes/mp_benchmarks.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..425d6de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_benchmarks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+#
+# Simple benchmarks for the multiprocessing package
+#
+
+import time, sys, multiprocessing, threading, Queue, gc
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    _timer = time.clock
+else:
+    _timer = time.time
+
+delta = 1
+
+
+#### TEST_QUEUESPEED
+
+def queuespeed_func(q, c, iterations):
+    a = '0' * 256
+    c.acquire()
+    c.notify()
+    c.release()
+
+    for i in xrange(iterations):
+        q.put(a)
+
+    q.put('STOP')
+
+def test_queuespeed(Process, q, c):
+    elapsed = 0
+    iterations = 1
+
+    while elapsed < delta:
+        iterations *= 2
+
+        p = Process(target=queuespeed_func, args=(q, c, iterations))
+        c.acquire()
+        p.start()
+        c.wait()
+        c.release()
+
+        result = None
+        t = _timer()
+
+        while result != 'STOP':
+            result = q.get()
+
+        elapsed = _timer() - t
+
+        p.join()
+
+    print iterations, 'objects passed through the queue in', elapsed, 'seconds'
+    print 'average number/sec:', iterations/elapsed
+
+
+#### TEST_PIPESPEED
+
+def pipe_func(c, cond, iterations):
+    a = '0' * 256
+    cond.acquire()
+    cond.notify()
+    cond.release()
+
+    for i in xrange(iterations):
+        c.send(a)
+
+    c.send('STOP')
+
+def test_pipespeed():
+    c, d = multiprocessing.Pipe()
+    cond = multiprocessing.Condition()
+    elapsed = 0
+    iterations = 1
+
+    while elapsed < delta:
+        iterations *= 2
+
+        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=pipe_func,
+                                    args=(d, cond, iterations))
+        cond.acquire()
+        p.start()
+        cond.wait()
+        cond.release()
+
+        result = None
+        t = _timer()
+
+        while result != 'STOP':
+            result = c.recv()
+
+        elapsed = _timer() - t
+        p.join()
+
+    print iterations, 'objects passed through connection in',elapsed,'seconds'
+    print 'average number/sec:', iterations/elapsed
+
+
+#### TEST_SEQSPEED
+
+def test_seqspeed(seq):
+    elapsed = 0
+    iterations = 1
+
+    while elapsed < delta:
+        iterations *= 2
+
+        t = _timer()
+
+        for i in xrange(iterations):
+            a = seq[5]
+
+        elapsed = _timer()-t
+
+    print iterations, 'iterations in', elapsed, 'seconds'
+    print 'average number/sec:', iterations/elapsed
+
+
+#### TEST_LOCK
+
+def test_lockspeed(l):
+    elapsed = 0
+    iterations = 1
+
+    while elapsed < delta:
+        iterations *= 2
+
+        t = _timer()
+
+        for i in xrange(iterations):
+            l.acquire()
+            l.release()
+
+        elapsed = _timer()-t
+
+    print iterations, 'iterations in', elapsed, 'seconds'
+    print 'average number/sec:', iterations/elapsed
+
+
+#### TEST_CONDITION
+
+def conditionspeed_func(c, N):
+    c.acquire()
+    c.notify()
+
+    for i in xrange(N):
+        c.wait()
+        c.notify()
+
+    c.release()
+
+def test_conditionspeed(Process, c):
+    elapsed = 0
+    iterations = 1
+
+    while elapsed < delta:
+        iterations *= 2
+
+        c.acquire()
+        p = Process(target=conditionspeed_func, args=(c, iterations))
+        p.start()
+
+        c.wait()
+
+        t = _timer()
+
+        for i in xrange(iterations):
+            c.notify()
+            c.wait()
+
+        elapsed = _timer()-t
+
+        c.release()
+        p.join()
+
+    print iterations * 2, 'waits in', elapsed, 'seconds'
+    print 'average number/sec:', iterations * 2 / elapsed
+
+####
+
+def test():
+    manager = multiprocessing.Manager()
+
+    gc.disable()
+
+    print '\n\t######## testing Queue.Queue\n'
+    test_queuespeed(threading.Thread, Queue.Queue(),
+                    threading.Condition())
+    print '\n\t######## testing multiprocessing.Queue\n'
+    test_queuespeed(multiprocessing.Process, multiprocessing.Queue(),
+                    multiprocessing.Condition())
+    print '\n\t######## testing Queue managed by server process\n'
+    test_queuespeed(multiprocessing.Process, manager.Queue(),
+                    manager.Condition())
+    print '\n\t######## testing multiprocessing.Pipe\n'
+    test_pipespeed()
+
+    print
+
+    print '\n\t######## testing list\n'
+    test_seqspeed(range(10))
+    print '\n\t######## testing list managed by server process\n'
+    test_seqspeed(manager.list(range(10)))
+    print '\n\t######## testing Array("i", ..., lock=False)\n'
+    test_seqspeed(multiprocessing.Array('i', range(10), lock=False))
+    print '\n\t######## testing Array("i", ..., lock=True)\n'
+    test_seqspeed(multiprocessing.Array('i', range(10), lock=True))
+
+    print
+
+    print '\n\t######## testing threading.Lock\n'
+    test_lockspeed(threading.Lock())
+    print '\n\t######## testing threading.RLock\n'
+    test_lockspeed(threading.RLock())
+    print '\n\t######## testing multiprocessing.Lock\n'
+    test_lockspeed(multiprocessing.Lock())
+    print '\n\t######## testing multiprocessing.RLock\n'
+    test_lockspeed(multiprocessing.RLock())
+    print '\n\t######## testing lock managed by server process\n'
+    test_lockspeed(manager.Lock())
+    print '\n\t######## testing rlock managed by server process\n'
+    test_lockspeed(manager.RLock())
+
+    print
+
+    print '\n\t######## testing threading.Condition\n'
+    test_conditionspeed(threading.Thread, threading.Condition())
+    print '\n\t######## testing multiprocessing.Condition\n'
+    test_conditionspeed(multiprocessing.Process, multiprocessing.Condition())
+    print '\n\t######## testing condition managed by a server process\n'
+    test_conditionspeed(multiprocessing.Process, manager.Condition())
+
+    gc.enable()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    multiprocessing.freeze_support()
+    test()
diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py b/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e8e52a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+#
+# Module to allow spawning of processes on foreign host
+#
+# Depends on `multiprocessing` package -- tested with `processing-0.60`
+#
+
+__all__ = ['Cluster', 'Host', 'get_logger', 'current_process']
+
+#
+# Imports
+#
+
+import sys
+import os
+import tarfile
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import logging
+import itertools
+import Queue
+
+try:
+    import cPickle as pickle
+except ImportError:
+    import pickle
+
+from multiprocessing import Process, current_process, cpu_count
+from multiprocessing import util, managers, connection, forking, pool
+
+#
+# Logging
+#
+
+def get_logger():
+    return _logger
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger('distributing')
+_logger.propogate = 0
+
+util.fix_up_logger(_logger)
+_formatter = logging.Formatter(util.DEFAULT_LOGGING_FORMAT)
+_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+_handler.setFormatter(_formatter)
+_logger.addHandler(_handler)
+
+info = _logger.info
+debug = _logger.debug
+
+#
+# Get number of cpus
+#
+
+try:
+    slot_count = cpu_count()
+except NotImplemented:
+    slot_count = 1
+        
+#
+# Manager type which spawns subprocesses
+#
+
+class HostManager(managers.SyncManager):
+    '''
+    Manager type used for spawning processes on a (presumably) foreign host
+    '''    
+    def __init__(self, address, authkey):
+        managers.SyncManager.__init__(self, address, authkey)
+        self._name = 'Host-unknown'
+
+    def Process(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}):
+        if hasattr(sys.modules['__main__'], '__file__'):
+            main_path = os.path.basename(sys.modules['__main__'].__file__)
+        else:
+            main_path = None
+        data = pickle.dumps((target, args, kwargs))
+        p = self._RemoteProcess(data, main_path)
+        if name is None:
+            temp = self._name.split('Host-')[-1] + '/Process-%s'
+            name = temp % ':'.join(map(str, p.get_identity()))
+        p.set_name(name)
+        return p
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_address(cls, address, authkey):
+        manager = cls(address, authkey)
+        managers.transact(address, authkey, 'dummy')
+        manager._state.value = managers.State.STARTED
+        manager._name = 'Host-%s:%s' % manager.address
+        manager.shutdown = util.Finalize(
+            manager, HostManager._finalize_host,
+            args=(manager._address, manager._authkey, manager._name),
+            exitpriority=-10
+            )
+        return manager
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _finalize_host(address, authkey, name):
+        managers.transact(address, authkey, 'shutdown')
+        
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<Host(%s)>' % self._name
+
+#
+# Process subclass representing a process on (possibly) a remote machine
+#
+
+class RemoteProcess(Process):
+    '''
+    Represents a process started on a remote host
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, data, main_path):
+        assert not main_path or os.path.basename(main_path) == main_path
+        Process.__init__(self)
+        self._data = data
+        self._main_path = main_path
+        
+    def _bootstrap(self):
+        forking.prepare({'main_path': self._main_path})
+        self._target, self._args, self._kwargs = pickle.loads(self._data)
+        return Process._bootstrap(self)
+        
+    def get_identity(self):
+        return self._identity
+
+HostManager.register('_RemoteProcess', RemoteProcess)
+
+#
+# A Pool class that uses a cluster
+#
+
+class DistributedPool(pool.Pool):
+    
+    def __init__(self, cluster, processes=None, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+        self._cluster = cluster
+        self.Process = cluster.Process
+        pool.Pool.__init__(self, processes or len(cluster),
+                           initializer, initargs)
+        
+    def _setup_queues(self):
+        self._inqueue = self._cluster._SettableQueue()
+        self._outqueue = self._cluster._SettableQueue()
+        self._quick_put = self._inqueue.put
+        self._quick_get = self._outqueue.get
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _help_stuff_finish(inqueue, task_handler, size):
+        inqueue.set_contents([None] * size)
+
+#
+# Manager type which starts host managers on other machines
+#
+
+def LocalProcess(**kwds):
+    p = Process(**kwds)
+    p.set_name('localhost/' + p.get_name())
+    return p
+
+class Cluster(managers.SyncManager):
+    '''
+    Represents collection of slots running on various hosts.
+    
+    `Cluster` is a subclass of `SyncManager` so it allows creation of
+    various types of shared objects.
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, hostlist, modules):
+        managers.SyncManager.__init__(self, address=('localhost', 0))
+        self._hostlist = hostlist
+        self._modules = modules
+        if __name__ not in modules:
+            modules.append(__name__)
+        files = [sys.modules[name].__file__ for name in modules]
+        for i, file in enumerate(files):
+            if file.endswith('.pyc') or file.endswith('.pyo'):
+                files[i] = file[:-4] + '.py'
+        self._files = [os.path.abspath(file) for file in files]
+        
+    def start(self):
+        managers.SyncManager.start(self)
+        
+        l = connection.Listener(family='AF_INET', authkey=self._authkey)
+        
+        for i, host in enumerate(self._hostlist):
+            host._start_manager(i, self._authkey, l.address, self._files)
+
+        for host in self._hostlist:
+            if host.hostname != 'localhost':
+                conn = l.accept()
+                i, address, cpus = conn.recv()
+                conn.close()
+                other_host = self._hostlist[i]
+                other_host.manager = HostManager.from_address(address,
+                                                              self._authkey)
+                other_host.slots = other_host.slots or cpus
+                other_host.Process = other_host.manager.Process
+            else:
+                host.slots = host.slots or slot_count
+                host.Process = LocalProcess
+
+        self._slotlist = [
+            Slot(host) for host in self._hostlist for i in range(host.slots)
+            ]
+        self._slot_iterator = itertools.cycle(self._slotlist)
+        self._base_shutdown = self.shutdown
+        del self.shutdown
+        
+    def shutdown(self):
+        for host in self._hostlist:
+            if host.hostname != 'localhost':
+                host.manager.shutdown()
+        self._base_shutdown()
+        
+    def Process(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}):
+        slot = self._slot_iterator.next()
+        return slot.Process(
+            group=group, target=target, name=name, args=args, kwargs=kwargs
+            )
+
+    def Pool(self, processes=None, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+        return DistributedPool(self, processes, initializer, initargs)
+    
+    def __getitem__(self, i):
+        return self._slotlist[i]
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self._slotlist)
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(self._slotlist)
+
+#
+# Queue subclass used by distributed pool
+#
+
+class SettableQueue(Queue.Queue):
+    def empty(self):
+        return not self.queue
+    def full(self):
+        return self.maxsize > 0 and len(self.queue) == self.maxsize
+    def set_contents(self, contents):
+        # length of contents must be at least as large as the number of
+        # threads which have potentially called get()
+        self.not_empty.acquire()
+        try:
+            self.queue.clear()
+            self.queue.extend(contents)
+            self.not_empty.notifyAll()
+        finally:
+            self.not_empty.release()
+            
+Cluster.register('_SettableQueue', SettableQueue)
+
+#
+# Class representing a notional cpu in the cluster
+#
+
+class Slot(object):
+    def __init__(self, host):
+        self.host = host
+        self.Process = host.Process
+
+#
+# Host
+#
+
+class Host(object):
+    '''
+    Represents a host to use as a node in a cluster.
+
+    `hostname` gives the name of the host.  If hostname is not
+    "localhost" then ssh is used to log in to the host.  To log in as
+    a different user use a host name of the form
+    "username@somewhere.org"
+
+    `slots` is used to specify the number of slots for processes on
+    the host.  This affects how often processes will be allocated to
+    this host.  Normally this should be equal to the number of cpus on
+    that host.
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, hostname, slots=None):
+        self.hostname = hostname
+        self.slots = slots
+        
+    def _start_manager(self, index, authkey, address, files):
+        if self.hostname != 'localhost':
+            tempdir = copy_to_remote_temporary_directory(self.hostname, files)
+            debug('startup files copied to %s:%s', self.hostname, tempdir)
+            p = subprocess.Popen(
+                ['ssh', self.hostname, 'python', '-c',
+                 '"import os; os.chdir(%r); '
+                 'from distributing import main; main()"' % tempdir],
+                stdin=subprocess.PIPE
+                )
+            data = dict(
+                name='BoostrappingHost', index=index,
+                dist_log_level=_logger.getEffectiveLevel(),
+                dir=tempdir, authkey=str(authkey), parent_address=address
+                )
+            pickle.dump(data, p.stdin, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
+            p.stdin.close()
+
+#
+# Copy files to remote directory, returning name of directory
+#
+
+unzip_code = '''"
+import tempfile, os, sys, tarfile
+tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='distrib-')
+os.chdir(tempdir)
+tf = tarfile.open(fileobj=sys.stdin, mode='r|gz')
+for ti in tf:
+    tf.extract(ti)
+print tempdir
+"'''
+
+def copy_to_remote_temporary_directory(host, files):
+    p = subprocess.Popen(
+        ['ssh', host, 'python', '-c', unzip_code],
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE
+        )
+    tf = tarfile.open(fileobj=p.stdin, mode='w|gz')
+    for name in files:
+        tf.add(name, os.path.basename(name))
+    tf.close()
+    p.stdin.close()
+    return p.stdout.read().rstrip()
+
+#
+# Code which runs a host manager
+#
+
+def main():   
+    # get data from parent over stdin
+    data = pickle.load(sys.stdin)
+    sys.stdin.close()
+
+    # set some stuff
+    _logger.setLevel(data['dist_log_level'])
+    forking.prepare(data)
+    
+    # create server for a `HostManager` object
+    server = managers.Server(HostManager._registry, ('', 0), data['authkey'])
+    current_process()._server = server
+    
+    # report server address and number of cpus back to parent
+    conn = connection.Client(data['parent_address'], authkey=data['authkey'])
+    conn.send((data['index'], server.address, slot_count))
+    conn.close()
+    
+    # set name etc
+    current_process().set_name('Host-%s:%s' % server.address)
+    util._run_after_forkers()
+    
+    # register a cleanup function
+    def cleanup(directory):
+        debug('removing directory %s', directory)
+        shutil.rmtree(directory)
+        debug('shutting down host manager')
+    util.Finalize(None, cleanup, args=[data['dir']], exitpriority=0)
+    
+    # start host manager
+    debug('remote host manager starting in %s', data['dir'])
+    server.serve_forever()
diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_newtype.py b/Doc/includes/mp_newtype.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9edc9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_newtype.py
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#
+# This module shows how to use arbitrary callables with a subclass of
+# `BaseManager`.
+#
+
+from multiprocessing import freeze_support
+from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager, BaseProxy
+import operator
+
+##
+
+class Foo(object):
+    def f(self):
+        print 'you called Foo.f()'
+    def g(self):
+        print 'you called Foo.g()'
+    def _h(self):
+        print 'you called Foo._h()'
+
+# A simple generator function
+def baz():
+    for i in xrange(10):
+        yield i*i
+
+# Proxy type for generator objects
+class GeneratorProxy(BaseProxy):
+    _exposed_ = ('next', '__next__')
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    def next(self):
+        return self._callmethod('next')
+    def __next__(self):
+        return self._callmethod('__next__')
+
+# Function to return the operator module
+def get_operator_module():
+    return operator
+
+##
+
+class MyManager(BaseManager):
+    pass
+
+# register the Foo class; make `f()` and `g()` accessible via proxy
+MyManager.register('Foo1', Foo)
+
+# register the Foo class; make `g()` and `_h()` accessible via proxy
+MyManager.register('Foo2', Foo, exposed=('g', '_h'))
+
+# register the generator function baz; use `GeneratorProxy` to make proxies
+MyManager.register('baz', baz, proxytype=GeneratorProxy)
+
+# register get_operator_module(); make public functions accessible via proxy
+MyManager.register('operator', get_operator_module)
+
+##
+
+def test():
+    manager = MyManager()
+    manager.start()
+
+    print '-' * 20
+
+    f1 = manager.Foo1()
+    f1.f()
+    f1.g()
+    assert not hasattr(f1, '_h')
+    assert sorted(f1._exposed_) == sorted(['f', 'g'])
+
+    print '-' * 20
+
+    f2 = manager.Foo2()
+    f2.g()
+    f2._h()
+    assert not hasattr(f2, 'f')
+    assert sorted(f2._exposed_) == sorted(['g', '_h'])
+
+    print '-' * 20
+
+    it = manager.baz()
+    for i in it:
+        print '<%d>' % i,
+    print
+
+    print '-' * 20
+
+    op = manager.operator()
+    print 'op.add(23, 45) =', op.add(23, 45)
+    print 'op.pow(2, 94) =', op.pow(2, 94)
+    print 'op.getslice(range(10), 2, 6) =', op.getslice(range(10), 2, 6)
+    print 'op.repeat(range(5), 3) =', op.repeat(range(5), 3)
+    print 'op._exposed_ =', op._exposed_
+
+##
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    freeze_support()
+    test()
diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_pool.py b/Doc/includes/mp_pool.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b937b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_pool.py
@@ -0,0 +1,311 @@
+#
+# A test of `multiprocessing.Pool` class
+#
+
+import multiprocessing
+import time
+import random
+import sys
+
+#
+# Functions used by test code
+#
+
+def calculate(func, args):
+    result = func(*args)
+    return '%s says that %s%s = %s' % (
+        multiprocessing.current_process().get_name(),
+        func.__name__, args, result
+        )
+
+def calculatestar(args):
+    return calculate(*args)
+
+def mul(a, b):
+    time.sleep(0.5*random.random())
+    return a * b
+
+def plus(a, b):
+    time.sleep(0.5*random.random())
+    return a + b
+
+def f(x):
+    return 1.0 / (x-5.0)
+
+def pow3(x):
+    return x**3
+
+def noop(x):
+    pass
+
+#
+# Test code
+#
+
+def test():
+    print 'cpu_count() = %d\n' % multiprocessing.cpu_count()
+
+    #
+    # Create pool
+    #
+
+    PROCESSES = 4
+    print 'Creating pool with %d processes\n' % PROCESSES
+    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(PROCESSES)
+    print 'pool = %s' % pool
+    print
+
+    #
+    # Tests
+    #
+
+    TASKS = [(mul, (i, 7)) for i in range(10)] + \
+            [(plus, (i, 8)) for i in range(10)]
+
+    results = [pool.apply_async(calculate, t) for t in TASKS]
+    imap_it = pool.imap(calculatestar, TASKS)
+    imap_unordered_it = pool.imap_unordered(calculatestar, TASKS)
+
+    print 'Ordered results using pool.apply_async():'
+    for r in results:
+        print '\t', r.get()
+    print
+
+    print 'Ordered results using pool.imap():'
+    for x in imap_it:
+        print '\t', x
+    print
+
+    print 'Unordered results using pool.imap_unordered():'
+    for x in imap_unordered_it:
+        print '\t', x
+    print
+
+    print 'Ordered results using pool.map() --- will block till complete:'
+    for x in pool.map(calculatestar, TASKS):
+        print '\t', x
+    print
+
+    #
+    # Simple benchmarks
+    #
+
+    N = 100000
+    print 'def pow3(x): return x**3'
+
+    t = time.time()
+    A = map(pow3, xrange(N))
+    print '\tmap(pow3, xrange(%d)):\n\t\t%s seconds' % \
+          (N, time.time() - t)
+
+    t = time.time()
+    B = pool.map(pow3, xrange(N))
+    print '\tpool.map(pow3, xrange(%d)):\n\t\t%s seconds' % \
+          (N, time.time() - t)
+
+    t = time.time()
+    C = list(pool.imap(pow3, xrange(N), chunksize=N//8))
+    print '\tlist(pool.imap(pow3, xrange(%d), chunksize=%d)):\n\t\t%s' \
+          ' seconds' % (N, N//8, time.time() - t)
+
+    assert A == B == C, (len(A), len(B), len(C))
+    print
+
+    L = [None] * 1000000
+    print 'def noop(x): pass'
+    print 'L = [None] * 1000000'
+
+    t = time.time()
+    A = map(noop, L)
+    print '\tmap(noop, L):\n\t\t%s seconds' % \
+          (time.time() - t)
+
+    t = time.time()
+    B = pool.map(noop, L)
+    print '\tpool.map(noop, L):\n\t\t%s seconds' % \
+          (time.time() - t)
+
+    t = time.time()
+    C = list(pool.imap(noop, L, chunksize=len(L)//8))
+    print '\tlist(pool.imap(noop, L, chunksize=%d)):\n\t\t%s seconds' % \
+          (len(L)//8, time.time() - t)
+
+    assert A == B == C, (len(A), len(B), len(C))
+    print
+
+    del A, B, C, L
+
+    #
+    # Test error handling
+    #
+
+    print 'Testing error handling:'
+
+    try:
+        print pool.apply(f, (5,))
+    except ZeroDivisionError:
+        print '\tGot ZeroDivisionError as expected from pool.apply()'
+    else:
+        raise AssertionError, 'expected ZeroDivisionError'
+
+    try:
+        print pool.map(f, range(10))
+    except ZeroDivisionError:
+        print '\tGot ZeroDivisionError as expected from pool.map()'
+    else:
+        raise AssertionError, 'expected ZeroDivisionError'
+
+    try:
+        print list(pool.imap(f, range(10)))
+    except ZeroDivisionError:
+        print '\tGot ZeroDivisionError as expected from list(pool.imap())'
+    else:
+        raise AssertionError, 'expected ZeroDivisionError'
+
+    it = pool.imap(f, range(10))
+    for i in range(10):
+        try:
+            x = it.next()
+        except ZeroDivisionError:
+            if i == 5:
+                pass
+        except StopIteration:
+            break
+        else:
+            if i == 5:
+                raise AssertionError, 'expected ZeroDivisionError'
+
+    assert i == 9
+    print '\tGot ZeroDivisionError as expected from IMapIterator.next()'
+    print
+
+    #
+    # Testing timeouts
+    #
+
+    print 'Testing ApplyResult.get() with timeout:',
+    res = pool.apply_async(calculate, TASKS[0])
+    while 1:
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        try:
+            sys.stdout.write('\n\t%s' % res.get(0.02))
+            break
+        except multiprocessing.TimeoutError:
+            sys.stdout.write('.')
+    print
+    print
+
+    print 'Testing IMapIterator.next() with timeout:',
+    it = pool.imap(calculatestar, TASKS)
+    while 1:
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        try:
+            sys.stdout.write('\n\t%s' % it.next(0.02))
+        except StopIteration:
+            break
+        except multiprocessing.TimeoutError:
+            sys.stdout.write('.')
+    print
+    print
+
+    #
+    # Testing callback
+    #
+
+    print 'Testing callback:'
+
+    A = []
+    B = [56, 0, 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216, 343, 512, 729]
+
+    r = pool.apply_async(mul, (7, 8), callback=A.append)
+    r.wait()
+
+    r = pool.map_async(pow3, range(10), callback=A.extend)
+    r.wait()
+
+    if A == B:
+        print '\tcallbacks succeeded\n'
+    else:
+        print '\t*** callbacks failed\n\t\t%s != %s\n' % (A, B)
+
+    #
+    # Check there are no outstanding tasks
+    #
+
+    assert not pool._cache, 'cache = %r' % pool._cache
+
+    #
+    # Check close() methods
+    #
+
+    print 'Testing close():'
+
+    for worker in pool._pool:
+        assert worker.is_alive()
+
+    result = pool.apply_async(time.sleep, [0.5])
+    pool.close()
+    pool.join()
+
+    assert result.get() is None
+
+    for worker in pool._pool:
+        assert not worker.is_alive()
+
+    print '\tclose() succeeded\n'
+
+    #
+    # Check terminate() method
+    #
+
+    print 'Testing terminate():'
+
+    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(2)
+    DELTA = 0.1
+    ignore = pool.apply(pow3, [2])
+    results = [pool.apply_async(time.sleep, [DELTA]) for i in range(100)]
+    pool.terminate()
+    pool.join()
+
+    for worker in pool._pool:
+        assert not worker.is_alive()
+
+    print '\tterminate() succeeded\n'
+
+    #
+    # Check garbage collection
+    #
+
+    print 'Testing garbage collection:'
+
+    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(2)
+    DELTA = 0.1
+    processes = pool._pool
+    ignore = pool.apply(pow3, [2])
+    results = [pool.apply_async(time.sleep, [DELTA]) for i in range(100)]
+
+    results = pool = None
+
+    time.sleep(DELTA * 2)
+
+    for worker in processes:
+        assert not worker.is_alive()
+
+    print '\tgarbage collection succeeded\n'
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    multiprocessing.freeze_support()
+
+    assert len(sys.argv) in (1, 2)
+
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1 or sys.argv[1] == 'processes':
+        print ' Using processes '.center(79, '-')
+    elif sys.argv[1] == 'threads':
+        print ' Using threads '.center(79, '-')
+        import multiprocessing.dummy as multiprocessing
+    else:
+        print 'Usage:\n\t%s [processes | threads]' % sys.argv[0]
+        raise SystemExit(2)
+
+    test()
diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_synchronize.py b/Doc/includes/mp_synchronize.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cf11bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_synchronize.py
@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+#
+# A test file for the `multiprocessing` package
+#
+
+import time, sys, random
+from Queue import Empty
+
+import multiprocessing               # may get overwritten
+
+
+#### TEST_VALUE
+
+def value_func(running, mutex):
+    random.seed()
+    time.sleep(random.random()*4)
+
+    mutex.acquire()
+    print '\n\t\t\t' + str(multiprocessing.current_process()) + ' has finished'
+    running.value -= 1
+    mutex.release()
+
+def test_value():
+    TASKS = 10
+    running = multiprocessing.Value('i', TASKS)
+    mutex = multiprocessing.Lock()
+
+    for i in range(TASKS):
+        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=value_func, args=(running, mutex))
+        p.start()
+
+    while running.value > 0:
+        time.sleep(0.08)
+        mutex.acquire()
+        print running.value,
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        mutex.release()
+
+    print
+    print 'No more running processes'
+
+
+#### TEST_QUEUE
+
+def queue_func(queue):
+    for i in range(30):
+        time.sleep(0.5 * random.random())
+        queue.put(i*i)
+    queue.put('STOP')
+
+def test_queue():
+    q = multiprocessing.Queue()
+
+    p = multiprocessing.Process(target=queue_func, args=(q,))
+    p.start()
+
+    o = None
+    while o != 'STOP':
+        try:
+            o = q.get(timeout=0.3)
+            print o,
+            sys.stdout.flush()
+        except Empty:
+            print 'TIMEOUT'
+
+    print
+
+
+#### TEST_CONDITION
+
+def condition_func(cond):
+    cond.acquire()
+    print '\t' + str(cond)
+    time.sleep(2)
+    print '\tchild is notifying'
+    print '\t' + str(cond)
+    cond.notify()
+    cond.release()
+
+def test_condition():
+    cond = multiprocessing.Condition()
+
+    p = multiprocessing.Process(target=condition_func, args=(cond,))
+    print cond
+
+    cond.acquire()
+    print cond
+    cond.acquire()
+    print cond
+
+    p.start()
+
+    print 'main is waiting'
+    cond.wait()
+    print 'main has woken up'
+
+    print cond
+    cond.release()
+    print cond
+    cond.release()
+
+    p.join()
+    print cond
+
+
+#### TEST_SEMAPHORE
+
+def semaphore_func(sema, mutex, running):
+    sema.acquire()
+
+    mutex.acquire()
+    running.value += 1
+    print running.value, 'tasks are running'
+    mutex.release()
+
+    random.seed()
+    time.sleep(random.random()*2)
+
+    mutex.acquire()
+    running.value -= 1
+    print '%s has finished' % multiprocessing.current_process()
+    mutex.release()
+
+    sema.release()
+
+def test_semaphore():
+    sema = multiprocessing.Semaphore(3)
+    mutex = multiprocessing.RLock()
+    running = multiprocessing.Value('i', 0)
+
+    processes = [
+        multiprocessing.Process(target=semaphore_func,
+                                args=(sema, mutex, running))
+        for i in range(10)
+        ]
+
+    for p in processes:
+        p.start()
+
+    for p in processes:
+        p.join()
+
+
+#### TEST_JOIN_TIMEOUT
+
+def join_timeout_func():
+    print '\tchild sleeping'
+    time.sleep(5.5)
+    print '\n\tchild terminating'
+
+def test_join_timeout():
+    p = multiprocessing.Process(target=join_timeout_func)
+    p.start()
+
+    print 'waiting for process to finish'
+
+    while 1:
+        p.join(timeout=1)
+        if not p.is_alive():
+            break
+        print '.',
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+
+
+#### TEST_EVENT
+
+def event_func(event):
+    print '\t%r is waiting' % multiprocessing.current_process()
+    event.wait()
+    print '\t%r has woken up' % multiprocessing.current_process()
+
+def test_event():
+    event = multiprocessing.Event()
+
+    processes = [multiprocessing.Process(target=event_func, args=(event,))
+                 for i in range(5)]
+
+    for p in processes:
+        p.start()
+
+    print 'main is sleeping'
+    time.sleep(2)
+
+    print 'main is setting event'
+    event.set()
+
+    for p in processes:
+        p.join()
+
+
+#### TEST_SHAREDVALUES
+
+def sharedvalues_func(values, arrays, shared_values, shared_arrays):
+    for i in range(len(values)):
+        v = values[i][1]
+        sv = shared_values[i].value
+        assert v == sv
+
+    for i in range(len(values)):
+        a = arrays[i][1]
+        sa = list(shared_arrays[i][:])
+        assert a == sa
+
+    print 'Tests passed'
+
+def test_sharedvalues():
+    values = [
+        ('i', 10),
+        ('h', -2),
+        ('d', 1.25)
+        ]
+    arrays = [
+        ('i', range(100)),
+        ('d', [0.25 * i for i in range(100)]),
+        ('H', range(1000))
+        ]
+
+    shared_values = [multiprocessing.Value(id, v) for id, v in values]
+    shared_arrays = [multiprocessing.Array(id, a) for id, a in arrays]
+
+    p = multiprocessing.Process(
+        target=sharedvalues_func,
+        args=(values, arrays, shared_values, shared_arrays)
+        )
+    p.start()
+    p.join()
+
+    assert p.get_exitcode() == 0
+
+
+####
+
+def test(namespace=multiprocessing):
+    global multiprocessing
+
+    multiprocessing = namespace
+
+    for func in [ test_value, test_queue, test_condition,
+                  test_semaphore, test_join_timeout, test_event,
+                  test_sharedvalues ]:
+
+        print '\n\t######## %s\n' % func.__name__
+        func()
+
+    ignore = multiprocessing.active_children()      # cleanup any old processes
+    if hasattr(multiprocessing, '_debug_info'):
+        info = multiprocessing._debug_info()
+        if info:
+            print info
+            raise ValueError, 'there should be no positive refcounts left'
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    multiprocessing.freeze_support()
+
+    assert len(sys.argv) in (1, 2)
+
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1 or sys.argv[1] == 'processes':
+        print ' Using processes '.center(79, '-')
+        namespace = multiprocessing
+    elif sys.argv[1] == 'manager':
+        print ' Using processes and a manager '.center(79, '-')
+        namespace = multiprocessing.Manager()
+        namespace.Process = multiprocessing.Process
+        namespace.current_process = multiprocessing.current_process
+        namespace.active_children = multiprocessing.active_children
+    elif sys.argv[1] == 'threads':
+        print ' Using threads '.center(79, '-')
+        import multiprocessing.dummy as namespace
+    else:
+        print 'Usage:\n\t%s [processes | manager | threads]' % sys.argv[0]
+        raise SystemExit, 2
+
+    test(namespace)
diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_webserver.py b/Doc/includes/mp_webserver.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15d2b6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_webserver.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#
+# Example where a pool of http servers share a single listening socket
+#
+# On Windows this module depends on the ability to pickle a socket
+# object so that the worker processes can inherit a copy of the server
+# object.  (We import `multiprocessing.reduction` to enable this pickling.)
+#
+# Not sure if we should synchronize access to `socket.accept()` method by
+# using a process-shared lock -- does not seem to be necessary.
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+from multiprocessing import Process, current_process, freeze_support
+from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
+from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    import multiprocessing.reduction    # make sockets pickable/inheritable
+
+
+def note(format, *args):
+    sys.stderr.write('[%s]\t%s\n' % (current_process().get_name(),format%args))
+
+
+class RequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    # we override log_message() to show which process is handling the request
+    def log_message(self, format, *args):
+        note(format, *args)
+
+def serve_forever(server):
+    note('starting server')
+    try:
+        server.serve_forever()
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass
+
+
+def runpool(address, number_of_processes):
+    # create a single server object -- children will each inherit a copy
+    server = HTTPServer(address, RequestHandler)
+
+    # create child processes to act as workers
+    for i in range(number_of_processes-1):
+        Process(target=serve_forever, args=(server,)).start()
+
+    # main process also acts as a worker
+    serve_forever(server)
+
+
+def test():
+    DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')
+    ADDRESS = ('localhost', 8000)
+    NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES = 4
+
+    print 'Serving at http://%s:%d using %d worker processes' % \
+          (ADDRESS[0], ADDRESS[1], NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES)
+    print 'To exit press Ctrl-' + ['C', 'Break'][sys.platform=='win32']
+
+    os.chdir(DIR)
+    runpool(ADDRESS, NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    freeze_support()
+    test()
diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_workers.py b/Doc/includes/mp_workers.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..795e6cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_workers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#
+# Simple example which uses a pool of workers to carry out some tasks.
+#
+# Notice that the results will probably not come out of the output
+# queue in the same in the same order as the corresponding tasks were
+# put on the input queue.  If it is important to get the results back
+# in the original order then consider using `Pool.map()` or
+# `Pool.imap()` (which will save on the amount of code needed anyway).
+#
+
+import time
+import random
+
+from multiprocessing import Process, Queue, current_process, freeze_support
+
+#
+# Function run by worker processes
+#
+
+def worker(input, output):
+    for func, args in iter(input.get, 'STOP'):
+        result = calculate(func, args)
+        output.put(result)
+
+#
+# Function used to calculate result
+#
+
+def calculate(func, args):
+    result = func(*args)
+    return '%s says that %s%s = %s' % \
+        (current_process().get_name(), func.__name__, args, result)
+
+#
+# Functions referenced by tasks
+#
+
+def mul(a, b):
+    time.sleep(0.5*random.random())
+    return a * b
+
+def plus(a, b):
+    time.sleep(0.5*random.random())
+    return a + b
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+def test():
+    NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES = 4
+    TASKS1 = [(mul, (i, 7)) for i in range(20)]
+    TASKS2 = [(plus, (i, 8)) for i in range(10)]
+
+    # Create queues
+    task_queue = Queue()
+    done_queue = Queue()
+
+    # Submit tasks
+    for task in TASKS1:
+        task_queue.put(task)
+
+    # Start worker processes
+    for i in range(NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES):
+        Process(target=worker, args=(task_queue, done_queue)).start()
+
+    # Get and print results
+    print 'Unordered results:'
+    for i in range(len(TASKS1)):
+        print '\t', done_queue.get()
+
+    # Add more tasks using `put()`
+    for task in TASKS2:
+        task_queue.put(task)
+
+    # Get and print some more results
+    for i in range(len(TASKS2)):
+        print '\t', done_queue.get()
+
+    # Tell child processes to stop
+    for i in range(NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES):
+        task_queue.put('STOP')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    freeze_support()
+    test()
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb374b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2108 @@
+:mod:`multiprocessing` --- Process-based "threading" interface
+==============================================================
+
+.. module:: multiprocessing
+   :synopsis: Process-based "threading" interface.
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+:mod:`multiprocessing` is a package for the Python language which supports the
+spawning of processes using a similar API of the :mod:`threading` module.  It
+runs on both Unix and Windows.
+
+The :mod:`multiprocessing` module offers the capability of both local and remote
+concurrency effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by utilizing
+subprocesses for "threads".  Due to this, the :mod:`multiprocessing` module
+allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine.
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+
+Threads, processes and the GIL
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To run more than one piece of code at the same time on the same computer one has
+the choice of either using multiple processes or multiple threads.
+
+Although a program can be made up of multiple processes, these processes are in
+effect completely independent of one another: different processes are not able
+to cooperate with one another unless one sets up some means of communication
+between them (such as by using sockets).  If a lot of data must be transferred
+between processes then this can be inefficient.
+
+On the other hand, multiple threads within a single process are intimately
+connected: they share their data but often can interfere badly with one another.
+It is often argued that the only way to make multithreaded programming "easy" is
+to avoid relying on any shared state and for the threads to only communicate by
+passing messages to each other.
+
+CPython has a *Global Interpreter Lock* (GIL) which in many ways makes threading
+easier than it is in most languages by making sure that only one thread can
+manipulate the interpreter's objects at a time.  As a result, it is often safe
+to let multiple threads access data without using any additional locking as one
+would need to in a language such as C.
+
+One downside of the GIL is that on multi-processor (or multi-core) systems a
+multithreaded Python program can only make use of one processor at a time unless
+your application makes heavy use of I/O which effectively side-steps this.  This
+is a problem that can be overcome by using multiple processes instead.
+
+This package allows one to write multi-process programs using much the same API
+that one uses for writing threaded programs.
+
+
+Forking and spawning
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+There are two ways of creating a new process in Python:
+
+* The current process can *fork* a new child process by using the
+  :func:`os.fork` function.  This effectively creates an identical copy of the
+  current process which is now able to go off and perform some task set by the
+  parent process.  This means that the child process inherits *copies* of all
+  variables that the parent process had.  However, :func:`os.fork` is not
+  available on every platform: in particular Windows does not support it.
+
+* Alternatively, the current process can spawn a completely new Python
+  interpreter by using the :mod:`subprocess` module or one of the
+  :func:`os.spawn*` functions.  Getting this new interpreter in to a fit state
+  to perform the task set for it by its parent process is, however, a bit of a
+  challenge.
+
+The :mod:`multiprocessing` module uses :func:`os.fork` if it is available since
+it makes life a lot simpler.  Forking the process is also more efficient in
+terms of memory usage and the time needed to create the new process.
+
+
+The :class:`Process` class
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In :mod:`multiprocessing`, processes are spawned by creating a :class:`Process`
+object and then calling its :meth:`Process.start` method.  :class:`Process`
+follows the API of :class:`threading.Thread`.  A trivial example of a
+multiprocess program is ::
+
+   from multiprocessing import Process
+
+   def f(name):
+       print 'hello', name
+
+   if __name__ == '__main__':
+       p = Process(target=f, args=('bob',))
+       p.start()
+       p.join()
+
+Here the function ``f`` is run in a child process.
+
+For an explanation of why (on Windows) the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` part is
+necessary, see :ref:`multiprocessing-programming`.
+
+
+
+Exchanging objects between processes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+:mod:`multiprocessing` supports two types of communication channel between
+processes:
+
+**Queues**
+
+   The :class:`Queue` class is a near clone of :class:`Queue.Queue`.  For
+   example::
+
+      from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
+
+      def f(q):
+          q.put([42, None, 'hello'])
+
+       if __name__ == '__main__':
+           q = Queue()
+           p = Process(target=f, args=(q,))
+           p.start()
+           print q.get()    # prints "[42, None, 'hello']"
+           p.join()
+
+   Queues are thread and process safe.
+
+**Pipes**
+
+   The :func:`Pipe` function returns a pair of connection objects connected by a
+   pipe which by default is duplex (two-way).  For example::
+
+      from multiprocessing import Process, Pipe
+
+      def f(conn):
+          conn.send([42, None, 'hello'])
+          conn.close()
+
+      if __name__ == '__main__':
+          parent_conn, child_conn = Pipe()
+          p = Process(target=f, args=(child_conn,))
+          p.start()
+          print parent_conn.recv()   # prints "[42, None, 'hello']"
+          p.join()
+
+   The two connection objects returned by :func:`Pipe` represent the two ends of
+   the pipe.  Each connection object has :meth:`send` and :meth:`recv` methods
+   (among others).  Note that data in a pipe may become corrupted if two
+   processes (or threads) try to read from or write to the *same* end of the
+   pipe at the same time.  Of course there is no risk of corruption from
+   processes using different ends of the pipe at the same time.
+
+
+Synchronization between processes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+:mod:`multiprocessing` contains equivalents of all the synchronization
+primitives from :mod:`threading`.  For instance one can use a lock to ensure
+that only one process prints to standard output at a time::
+
+   from multiprocessing import Process, Lock
+
+   def f(l, i):
+       l.acquire()
+       print 'hello world', i
+       l.release()
+
+   if __name__ == '__main__':
+       lock = Lock()
+
+       for num in range(10):
+           Process(target=f, args=(lock, num)).start()
+
+Without using the lock output from the different processes is liable to get all
+mixed up.
+
+
+Sharing state between processes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+As mentioned above, when doing concurrent programming it is usually best to
+avoid using shared state as far as possible.  This is particularly true when
+using multiple processes.
+
+However, if you really do need to use some shared data then
+:mod:`multiprocessing` provides a couple of ways of doing so.
+
+**Shared memory**
+
+   Data can be stored in a shared memory map using :class:`Value` or
+   :class:`Array`.  For example, the following code ::
+
+      from multiprocessing import Process, Value, Array
+
+      def f(n, a):
+          n.value = 3.1415927
+          for i in range(len(a)):
+              a[i] = -a[i]
+
+      if __name__ == '__main__':
+          num = Value('d', 0.0)
+          arr = Array('i', range(10))
+
+          p = Process(target=f, args=(num, arr))
+          p.start()
+          p.join()
+
+          print num.value
+          print arr[:]
+
+   will print ::
+
+      3.1415927
+      [0, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9]
+
+   The ``'d'`` and ``'i'`` arguments used when creating ``num`` and ``arr`` are
+   typecodes of the kind used by the :mod:`array` module: ``'d'`` indicates a
+   double precision float and ``'i'`` inidicates a signed integer.  These shared
+   objects will be process and thread safe.
+
+   For more flexibility in using shared memory one can use the
+   :mod:`multiprocessing.sharedctypes` module which supports the creation of
+   arbitrary ctypes objects allocated from shared memory.
+
+**Server process**
+
+   A manager object returned by :func:`Manager` controls a server process which
+   holds python objects and allows other processes to manipulate them using
+   proxies.
+
+   A manager returned by :func:`Manager` will support types :class:`list`,
+   :class:`dict`, :class:`Namespace`, :class:`Lock`, :class:`RLock`,
+   :class:`Semaphore`, :class:`BoundedSemaphore`, :class:`Condition`,
+   :class:`Event`, :class:`Queue`, :class:`Value` and :class:`Array`.  For
+   example, ::
+
+      from multiprocessing import Process, Manager
+
+      def f(d, l):
+          d[1] = '1'
+          d['2'] = 2
+          d[0.25] = None
+          l.reverse()
+
+      if __name__ == '__main__':
+          manager = Manager()
+
+          d = manager.dict()
+          l = manager.list(range(10))
+
+          p = Process(target=f, args=(d, l))
+          p.start()
+          p.join()
+
+          print d
+          print l
+
+   will print ::
+
+       {0.25: None, 1: '1', '2': 2}
+       [9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
+
+   Server process managers are more flexible than using shared memory objects
+   because they can be made to support arbitrary object types.  Also, a single
+   manager can be shared by processes on different computers over a network.
+   They are, however, slower than using shared memory.
+
+
+Using a pool of workers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The :class:`multiprocessing.pool.Pool()` class represens a pool of worker
+processes.  It has methods which allows tasks to be offloaded to the worker
+processes in a few different ways.
+
+For example::
+
+   from multiprocessing import Pool
+
+   def f(x):
+       return x*x
+
+   if __name__ == '__main__':
+       pool = Pool(processes=4)              # start 4 worker processes
+       result = pool.applyAsync(f, [10])     # evaluate "f(10)" asynchronously
+       print result.get(timeout=1)           # prints "100" unless your computer is *very* slow
+       print pool.map(f, range(10))          # prints "[0, 1, 4,..., 81]"
+
+
+Reference
+---------
+
+The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the
+:mod:`threading` module.
+
+
+:class:`Process` and exceptions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. class:: Process([group[, target[, name[, args[, kwargs]]]]])
+
+   Process objects represent activity that is run in a separate process. The
+   :class:`Process` class has equivalents of all the methods of
+   :class:`threading.Thread`.
+
+   The constructor should always be called with keyword arguments. *group*
+   should always be ``None``; it exists soley for compatibility with
+   :class:`threading.Thread`.  *target* is the callable object to be invoked by
+   the :meth:`run()` method.  It defaults to None, meaning nothing is
+   called. *name* is the process name.  By default, a unique name is constructed
+   of the form 'Process-N\ :sub:`1`:N\ :sub:`2`:...:N\ :sub:`k`' where N\
+   :sub:`1`,N\ :sub:`2`,...,N\ :sub:`k` is a sequence of integers whose length
+   is determined by the *generation* of the process.  *args* is the argument
+   tuple for the target invocation.  *kwargs* is a dictionary of keyword
+   arguments for the target invocation.  By default, no arguments are passed to
+   *target*.
+
+   If a subclass overrides the constructor, it must make sure it invokes the
+   base class constructor (:meth:`Process.__init__`) before doing anything else
+   to the process.
+
+   .. method:: run()
+
+      Method representing the process's activity.
+
+      You may override this method in a subclass.  The standard :meth:`run`
+      method invokes the callable object passed to the object's constructor as
+      the target argument, if any, with sequential and keyword arguments taken
+      from the *args* and *kwargs* arguments, respectively.
+
+   .. method:: start()
+
+      Start the process's activity.
+
+      This must be called at most once per process object.  It arranges for the
+      object's :meth:`run` method to be invoked in a separate process.
+
+   .. method:: join([timeout])
+
+      Block the calling thread until the process whose :meth:`join` method is
+      called terminates or until the optional timeout occurs.
+
+      If *timeout* is ``None`` then there is no timeout.
+
+      A process can be joined many times.
+
+      A process cannot join itself because this would cause a deadlock.  It is
+      an error to attempt to join a process before it has been started.
+
+   .. method:: get_name()
+
+      Return the process's name.
+
+   .. method:: set_name(name)
+
+      Set the process's name.
+
+      The name is a string used for identification purposes only.  It has no
+      semantics.  Multiple processes may be given the same name.  The initial
+      name is set by the constructor.
+
+   .. method:: is_alive()
+
+      Return whether the process is alive.
+
+      Roughly, a process object is alive from the moment the :meth:`start`
+      method returns until the child process terminates.
+
+   .. method:: is_daemon()
+
+      Return the process's daemon flag.
+
+   .. method:: set_daemon(daemonic)
+
+      Set the process's daemon flag to the Boolean value *daemonic*.  This must
+      be called before :meth:`start` is called.
+
+      The initial value is inherited from the creating process.
+
+      When a process exits, it attempts to terminate all of its daemonic child
+      processes.
+
+      Note that a daemonic process is not allowed to create child processes.
+      Otherwise a daemonic process would leave its children orphaned if it gets
+      terminated when its parent process exits.
+
+   In addition process objects also support the following methods:
+
+   .. method:: get_pid()
+
+      Return the process ID.  Before the process is spawned, this will be
+      ``None``.
+
+   .. method:: get_exit_code()
+
+      Return the child's exit code.  This will be ``None`` if the process has
+      not yet terminated.  A negative value *-N* indicates that the child was
+      terminated by signal *N*.
+
+   .. method:: get_auth_key()
+
+      Return the process's authentication key (a byte string).
+
+      When :mod:`multiprocessing` is initialized the main process is assigned a
+      random string using :func:`os.random`.
+
+      When a :class:`Process` object is created, it will inherit the
+      authentication key of its parent process, although this may be changed
+      using :meth:`set_auth_key` below.
+
+      See :ref:`multiprocessing-auth-keys`.
+
+   .. method:: set_auth_key(authkey)
+
+      Set the process's authentication key which must be a byte string.
+
+   .. method:: terminate()`
+
+      Terminate the process.  On Unix this is done using the ``SIGTERM`` signal,
+      on Windows ``TerminateProcess()`` is used.  Note that exit handlers and
+      finally clauses etc will not be executed.
+
+      Note that descendant processes of the process will *not* be terminated --
+      they will simply become orphaned.
+
+      .. warning::
+
+         If this method is used when the associated process is using a pipe or
+         queue then the pipe or queue is liable to become corrupted and may
+         become unusable by other process.  Similarly, if the process has
+         acquired a lock or semaphore etc. then terminating it is liable to
+         cause other processes to deadlock.
+
+   Note that the :meth:`start`, :meth:`join`, :meth:`is_alive` and
+   :meth:`get_exit_code` methods should only be called by the process that
+   created the process object.
+
+   Example usage of some of the methods of :class:`Process`::
+
+       >>> import processing, time, signal
+       >>> p = processing.Process(target=time.sleep, args=(1000,))
+       >>> print p, p.is_alive()
+       <Process(Process-1, initial)> False
+       >>> p.start()
+       >>> print p, p.is_alive()
+       <Process(Process-1, started)> True
+       >>> p.terminate()
+       >>> print p, p.is_alive()
+       <Process(Process-1, stopped[SIGTERM])> False
+       >>> p.get_exit_code() == -signal.SIGTERM
+       True
+
+
+.. exception:: BufferTooShort
+
+   Exception raised by :meth:`Connection.recv_bytes_into()` when the supplied
+   buffer object is too small for the message read.
+
+   If ``e`` is an instance of :exc:`BufferTooShort` then ``e.args[0]`` will give
+   the message as a byte string.
+
+
+Pipes and Queues
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When using multiple processes, one generally uses message passing for
+communication between processes and avoids having to use any synchronization
+primitives like locks.
+
+For passing messages one can use :func:`Pipe` (for a connection between two
+processes) or a queue (which allows multiple producers and consumers).
+
+The :class:`Queue` and :class:`JoinableQueue` types are multi-producer,
+multi-consumer FIFO queues modelled on the :class:`Queue.Queue` class in the
+standard library.  They differ in that :class:`Queue` lacks the
+:meth:`task_done` and :meth:`join` methods introduced into Python 2.5's
+:class:`Queue.Queue` class.
+
+If you use :class:`JoinableQueue` then you **must** call
+:meth:`JoinableQueue.task_done` for each task removed from the queue or else the
+semaphore used to count the number of unfinished tasks may eventually overflow
+raising an exception.
+
+.. note::
+
+   :mod:`multiprocessing` uses the usual :exc:`Queue.Empty` and
+   :exc:`Queue.Full` exceptions to signal a timeout.  They are not available in
+   the :mod:`multiprocessing` namespace so you need to import them from
+   :mod:`Queue`.
+
+
+.. warning::
+
+   If a process is killed using :meth:`Process.terminate` or :func:`os.kill`
+   while it is trying to use a :class:`Queue`, then the data in the queue is
+   likely to become corrupted.  This may cause any other processes to get an
+   exception when it tries to use the queue later on.
+
+.. warning::
+
+   As mentioned above, if a child process has put items on a queue (and it has
+   not used :meth:`JoinableQueue.cancel_join_thread`), then that process will
+   not terminate until all buffered items have been flushed to the pipe.
+
+   This means that if you try joining that process you may get a deadlock unless
+   you are sure that all items which have been put on the queue have been
+   consumed.  Similarly, if the child process is non-daemonic then the parent
+   process may hang on exit when it tries to join all it non-daemonic children.
+
+   Note that a queue created using a manager does not have this issue.  See
+   :ref:`multiprocessing-programming`.
+
+Note that one can also create a shared queue by using a manager object -- see
+:ref:`multiprocessing-managers`.
+
+For an example of the usage of queues for interprocess communication see
+:ref:`multiprocessing-examples`.
+
+
+.. function:: Pipe([duplex])
+
+   Returns a pair ``(conn1, conn2)`` of :class:`Connection` objects representing
+   the ends of a pipe.
+
+   If *duplex* is ``True`` (the default) then the pipe is bidirectional.  If
+   *duplex* is ``False`` then the pipe is unidirectional: ``conn1`` can only be
+   used for receiving messages and ``conn2`` can only be used for sending
+   messages.
+
+
+.. class:: Queue([maxsize])
+
+   Returns a process shared queue implemented using a pipe and a few
+   locks/semaphores.  When a process first puts an item on the queue a feeder
+   thread is started which transfers objects from a buffer into the pipe.
+
+   The usual :exc:`Queue.Empty` and :exc:`Queue.Full` exceptions from the
+   standard library's :mod:`Queue` module are raised to signal timeouts.
+
+   :class:`Queue` implements all the methods of :class:`Queue.Queue` except for
+   :meth:`task_done` and :meth:`join`.
+
+   .. method:: qsize()
+
+      Return the approximate size of the queue.  Because of
+      multithreading/multiprocessing semantics, this number is not reliable.
+
+      Note that this may raise :exc:`NotImplementedError` on Unix platforms like
+      MacOS X where ``sem_getvalue()`` is not implemented.
+
+   .. method:: empty()
+
+      Return ``True`` if the queue is empty, ``False`` otherwise.  Because of
+      multithreading/multiprocessing semantics, this is not reliable.
+
+   .. method:: full()
+
+      Return ``True`` if the queue is full, ``False`` otherwise.  Because of
+      multithreading/multiprocessing semantics, this is not reliable.
+
+   .. method:: put(item[, block[, timeout]])`
+
+      Put item into the queue.  If optional args *block* is ``True`` (the
+      default) and *timeout* is ``None`` (the default), block if necessary until
+      a free slot is available.  If *timeout* is a positive number, it blocks at
+      most *timeout* seconds and raises the :exc:`Queue.Full` exception if no
+      free slot was available within that time.  Otherwise (*block* is
+      ``False``), put an item on the queue if a free slot is immediately
+      available, else raise the :exc:`Queue.Full` exception (*timeout* is
+      ignored in that case).
+
+   .. method:: put_nowait(item)
+
+      Equivalent to ``put(item, False)``.
+
+   .. method:: get([block[, timeout]])
+
+      Remove and return an item from the queue.  If optional args *block* is
+      ``True`` (the default) and *timeout* is ``None`` (the default), block if
+      necessary until an item is available.  If *timeout* is a positive number,
+      it blocks at most *timeout* seconds and raises the :exc:`Queue.Empty`
+      exception if no item was available within that time.  Otherwise (block is
+      ``False``), return an item if one is immediately available, else raise the
+      :exc:`Queue.Empty` exception (*timeout* is ignored in that case).
+
+   .. method:: get_nowait()
+               get_no_wait()
+
+      Equivalent to ``get(False)``.
+
+   :class:`multiprocessing.Queue` has a few additional methods not found in
+   :class:`Queue.Queue` which are usually unnecessary:
+
+   .. method:: close()
+
+      Indicate that no more data will be put on this queue by the current
+      process.  The background thread will quit once it has flushed all buffered
+      data to the pipe.  This is called automatically when the queue is garbage
+      collected.
+
+   .. method:: join_thread()
+
+      Join the background thread.  This can only be used after :meth:`close` has
+      been called.  It blocks until the background thread exits, ensuring that
+      all data in the buffer has been flushed to the pipe.
+
+      By default if a process is not the creator of the queue then on exit it
+      will attempt to join the queue's background thread.  The process can call
+      :meth:`cancel_join_thread()` to make :meth:`join_thread()` do nothing.
+
+   .. method:: cancel_join_thread()
+
+      Prevent :meth:`join_thread` from blocking.  In particular, this prevents
+      the background thread from being joined automatically when the process
+      exits -- see :meth:`join_thread()`.
+
+
+.. class:: JoinableQueue([maxsize])
+
+   :class:`JoinableQueue`, a :class:`Queue` subclass, is a queue which
+   additionally has :meth:`task_done` and :meth:`join` methods.
+
+   .. method:: task_done()
+
+      Indicate that a formerly enqueued task is complete. Used by queue consumer
+      threads.  For each :meth:`get` used to fetch a task, a subsequent call to
+      :meth:`task_done` tells the queue that the processing on the task is
+      complete.
+
+      If a :meth:`join` is currently blocking, it will resume when all items
+      have been processed (meaning that a :meth:`task_done` call was received
+      for every item that had been :meth:`put` into the queue).
+
+      Raises a :exc:`ValueError` if called more times than there were items
+      placed in the queue.
+
+
+   .. method:: join()
+
+      Block until all items in the queue have been gotten and processed.
+
+      The count of unfinished tasks goes up whenever an item is added to the
+      queue.  The count goes down whenever a consumer thread calls
+      :meth:`task_done` to indicate that the item was retrieved and all work on
+      it is complete.  When the count of unfinished tasks drops to zero,
+      :meth:`join` unblocks.
+
+
+Miscellaneous
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. function:: active_children()
+
+   Return list of all live children of the current process.
+
+   Calling this has the side affect of "joining" any processes which have
+   already finished.
+
+.. function:: cpu_count()
+
+   Return the number of CPUs in the system.  May raise
+   :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
+
+.. function:: current_process()
+
+   Return the :class:`Process` object corresponding to the current process.
+
+   An analogue of :func:`threading.current_thread`.
+
+.. function:: freeze_support()
+
+   Add support for when a program which uses :mod:`multiprocessing` has been
+   frozen to produce a Windows executable.  (Has been tested with **py2exe**,
+   **PyInstaller** and **cx_Freeze**.)
+
+   One needs to call this function straight after the ``if __name__ ==
+   '__main__'`` line of the main module.  For example::
+
+      from multiprocessing import Process, freeze_support
+
+      def f():
+          print 'hello world!'
+
+      if __name__ == '__main__':
+          freeze_support()
+          Process(target=f).start()
+
+   If the :func:`freeze_support()` line is missed out then trying to run the
+   frozen executable will raise :exc:`RuntimeError`.
+
+   If the module is being run normally by the Python interpreter then
+   :func:`freeze_support()` has no effect.
+
+.. function:: set_executable()
+
+   Sets the path of the python interpreter to use when starting a child process.
+   (By default `sys.executable` is used).  Embedders will probably need to do
+   some thing like ::
+
+      setExecutable(os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, 'pythonw.exe'))
+
+    before they can create child processes.  (Windows only)
+
+
+.. note::
+
+   :mod:`multiprocessing` contains no analogues of
+   :func:`threading.active_count`, :func:`threading.enumerate`,
+   :func:`threading.settrace`, :func:`threading.setprofile`,
+   :class:`threading.Timer`, or :class:`threading.local`.
+
+
+Connection Objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Connection objects allow the sending and receiving of picklable objects or
+strings.  They can be thought of as message oriented connected sockets.
+
+Connection objects usually created using :func:`Pipe()` -- see also
+:ref:`multiprocessing-listeners-clients`.
+
+.. class:: Connection
+
+   .. method:: send(obj)
+
+      Send an object to the other end of the connection which should be read
+      using :meth:`recv`.
+
+      The object must be picklable.
+
+   .. method:: recv()
+
+      Return an object sent from the other end of the connection using
+      :meth:`send`.  Raises :exc:`EOFError` if there is nothing left to receive
+      and the other end was closed.
+
+   .. method:: fileno()
+
+      Returns the file descriptor or handle used by the connection.
+
+   .. method:: close()
+
+      Close the connection.
+
+      This is called automatically when the connection is garbage collected.
+
+   .. method:: poll([timeout])
+
+      Return whether there is any data available to be read.
+
+      If *timeout* is not specified then it will return immediately.  If
+      *timeout* is a number then this specifies the maximum time in seconds to
+      block.  If *timeout* is ``None`` then an infinite timeout is used.
+
+   .. method:: send_bytes(buffer[, offset[, size]])
+
+      Send byte data from an object supporting the buffer interface as a
+      complete message.
+
+      If *offset* is given then data is read from that position in *buffer*.  If
+      *size* is given then that many bytes will be read from buffer.
+
+   .. method:: recv_bytes([maxlength])
+
+      Return a complete message of byte data sent from the other end of the
+      connection as a string.  Raises :exc:`EOFError` if there is nothing left
+      to receive and the other end has closed.
+
+      If *maxlength* is specified and the message is longer than *maxlength*
+      then :exc:`IOError` is raised and the connection will no longer be
+      readable.
+
+   .. method:: recv_bytes_into(buffer[, offset])
+
+      Read into *buffer* a complete message of byte data sent from the other end
+      of the connection and return the number of bytes in the message.  Raises
+      :exc:`EOFError` if there is nothing left to receive and the other end was
+      closed.
+
+      *buffer* must be an object satisfying the writable buffer interface.  If
+      *offset* is given then the message will be written into the buffer from
+      *that position.  Offset must be a non-negative integer less than the
+      *length of *buffer* (in bytes).
+
+      If the buffer is too short then a :exc:`BufferTooShort` exception is
+      raised and the complete message is available as ``e.args[0]`` where ``e``
+      is the exception instance.
+
+
+For example:
+
+    >>> from multiprocessing import Pipe
+    >>> a, b = Pipe()
+    >>> a.send([1, 'hello', None])
+    >>> b.recv()
+    [1, 'hello', None]
+    >>> b.send_bytes('thank you')
+    >>> a.recv_bytes()
+    'thank you'
+    >>> import array
+    >>> arr1 = array.array('i', range(5))
+    >>> arr2 = array.array('i', [0] * 10)
+    >>> a.send_bytes(arr1)
+    >>> count = b.recv_bytes_into(arr2)
+    >>> assert count == len(arr1) * arr1.itemsize
+    >>> arr2
+    array('i', [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0])
+
+
+.. warning::
+
+    The :meth:`Connection.recv` method automatically unpickles the data it
+    receives, which can be a security risk unless you can trust the process
+    which sent the message.
+
+    Therefore, unless the connection object was produced using :func:`Pipe()`
+    you should only use the `recv()` and `send()` methods after performing some
+    sort of authentication.  See :ref:`multiprocessing-auth-keys`.
+
+.. warning::
+
+    If a process is killed while it is trying to read or write to a pipe then
+    the data in the pipe is likely to become corrupted, because it may become
+    impossible to be sure where the message boundaries lie.
+
+
+Synchronization primitives
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Generally synchronization primitives are not as necessary in a multiprocess
+program as they are in a mulithreaded program.  See the documentation for the
+standard library's :mod:`threading` module.
+
+Note that one can also create synchronization primitives by using a manager
+object -- see :ref:`multiprocessing-managers`.
+
+.. class:: BoundedSemaphore([value])
+
+   A bounded semaphore object: a clone of :class:`threading.BoundedSemaphore`.
+
+   (On Mac OSX this is indistiguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because
+   ``sem_getvalue()`` is not implemented on that platform).
+
+.. class:: Condition([lock])
+
+   A condition variable: a clone of `threading.Condition`.
+
+   If *lock* is specified then it should be a :class:`Lock` or :class:`RLock`
+   object from :mod:`multiprocessing`.
+
+.. class:: Event()
+
+   A clone of :class:`threading.Event`.
+
+.. class:: Lock()
+
+   A non-recursive lock object: a clone of :class:`threading.Lock`.
+
+.. class:: RLock()
+
+   A recursive lock object: a clone of :class:`threading.RLock`.
+
+.. class:: Semaphore([value])
+
+   A bounded semaphore object: a clone of :class:`threading.Semaphore`.
+
+.. note::
+
+   The :meth:`acquire()` method of :class:`BoundedSemaphore`, :class:`Lock`,
+   :class:`RLock` and :class:`Semaphore` has a timeout parameter not supported
+   by the equivalents in :mod:`threading`.  The signature is
+   ``acquire(block=True, timeout=None)`` with keyword parameters being
+   acceptable.  If *block* is ``True`` and *timeout* is not ``None`` then it
+   specifies a timeout in seconds.  If *block* is ``False`` then *timeout* is
+   ignored.
+
+.. note::
+
+   If the SIGINT signal generated by Ctrl-C arrives while the main thread is
+   blocked by a call to :meth:`BoundedSemaphore.acquire`, :meth:`Lock.acquire`,
+   :meth:`RLock.acquire`, :meth:`Semaphore.acquire`, :meth:`Condition.acquire`
+   or :meth:`Condition.wait` then the call will be immediately interrupted and
+   :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` will be raised.
+
+   This differs from the behaviour of :mod:`threading` where SIGINT will be
+   ignored while the equivalent blocking calls are in progress.
+
+
+Shared :mod:`ctypes` Objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+It is possible to create shared objects using shared memory which can be
+inherited by child processes.
+
+.. function:: Value(typecode_or_type[, lock[, *args]])
+
+   Return a :mod:`ctypes` object allocated from shared memory.  By default the
+   return value is actually a synchronized wrapper for the object.
+
+   *typecode_or_type* determines the type of the returned object: it is either a
+   ctypes type or a one character typecode of the kind used by the :mod:`array`
+   module.  *\*args* is passed on to the constructor for the type.
+
+   If *lock* is ``True`` (the default) then a new lock object is created to
+   synchronize access to the value.  If *lock* is a :class:`Lock` or
+   :class:`RLock` object then that will be used to synchronize access to the
+   value.  If *lock* is ``False`` then access to the returned object will not be
+   automatically protected by a lock, so it will not necessarily be
+   "process-safe".
+
+   Note that *lock* is a keyword-only argument.
+
+.. function:: Array(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer, *, lock=True)
+
+   Return a ctypes array allocated from shared memory.  By default the return
+   value is actually a synchronized wrapper for the array.
+
+   *typecode_or_type* determines the type of the elements of the returned array:
+   it is either a ctypes type or a one character typecode of the kind used by
+   the :mod:`array` module.  If *size_or_initializer* is an integer, then it
+   determines the length of the array, and the array will be initially zeroed.
+   Otherwise, *size_or_initializer* is a sequence which is used to initialize
+   the array and whose length determines the length of the array.
+
+   If *lock* is ``True`` (the default) then a new lock object is created to
+   synchronize access to the value.  If *lock* is a :class:`Lock` or
+   :class:`RLock` object then that will be used to synchronize access to the
+   value.  If *lock* is ``False`` then access to the returned object will not be
+   automatically protected by a lock, so it will not necessarily be
+   "process-safe".
+
+   Note that *lock* is a keyword only argument.
+
+   Note that an array of :data:`ctypes.c_char` has *value* and *rawvalue*
+   attributes which allow one to use it to store and retrieve strings.
+
+
+The :mod:`multiprocessing.sharedctypes` module
+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+
+.. module:: multiprocessing.sharedctypes
+   :synopsis: Allocate ctypes objects from shared memory.
+
+The :mod:`multiprocessing.sharedctypes` module provides functions for allocating
+:mod:`ctypes` objects from shared memory which can be inherited by child
+processes.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Although it is posible to store a pointer in shared memory remember that this
+   will refer to a location in the address space of a specific process.
+   However, the pointer is quite likely to be invalid in the context of a second
+   process and trying to dereference the pointer from the second process may
+   cause a crash.
+
+.. function:: RawArray(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer)
+
+   Return a ctypes array allocated from shared memory.
+
+   *typecode_or_type* determines the type of the elements of the returned array:
+   it is either a ctypes type or a one character typecode of the kind used by
+   the :mod:`array` module.  If *size_or_initializer* is an integer then it
+   determines the length of the array, and the array will be initially zeroed.
+   Otherwise *size_or_initializer* is a sequence which is used to initialize the
+   array and whose length determines the length of the array.
+
+   Note that setting and getting an element is potentially non-atomic -- use
+   :func:`Array` instead to make sure that access is automatically synchronized
+   using a lock.
+
+.. function:: RawValue(typecode_or_type, *args)
+
+   Return a ctypes object allocated from shared memory.
+
+   *typecode_or_type* determines the type of the returned object: it is either a
+   ctypes type or a one character typecode of the kind used by the :mod:`array`
+   module.  */*args* is passed on to the constructor for the type.
+
+   Note that setting and getting the value is potentially non-atomic -- use
+   :func:`Value` instead to make sure that access is automatically synchronized
+   using a lock.
+
+   Note that an array of :data:`ctypes.c_char` has ``value`` and ``rawvalue``
+   attributes which allow one to use it to store and retrieve strings -- see
+   documentation for :mod:`ctypes`.
+
+.. function:: Array(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer[, lock[, *args]])
+
+   The same as :func:`RawArray` except that depending on the value of *lock* a
+   process-safe synchronization wrapper may be returned instead of a raw ctypes
+   array.
+
+   If *lock* is ``True`` (the default) then a new lock object is created to
+   synchronize access to the value.  If *lock* is a :class:`Lock` or
+   :class:`RLock` object then that will be used to synchronize access to the
+   value.  If *lock* is ``False`` then access to the returned object will not be
+   automatically protected by a lock, so it will not necessarily be
+   "process-safe".
+
+   Note that *lock* is a keyword-only argument.
+
+.. function:: Value(typecode_or_type, *args[, lock])
+
+   The same as :func:`RawValue` except that depending on the value of *lock* a
+   process-safe synchronization wrapper may be returned instead of a raw ctypes
+   object.
+
+   If *lock* is ``True`` (the default) then a new lock object is created to
+   synchronize access to the value.  If *lock* is a :class:`Lock` or
+   :class:`RLock` object then that will be used to synchronize access to the
+   value.  If *lock* is ``False`` then access to the returned object will not be
+   automatically protected by a lock, so it will not necessarily be
+   "process-safe".
+
+   Note that *lock* is a keyword-only argument.
+
+.. function:: copy(obj)
+
+   Return a ctypes object allocated from shared memory which is a copy of the
+   ctypes object *obj*.
+
+.. function:: synchronized(obj[, lock])
+
+   Return a process-safe wrapper object for a ctypes object which uses *lock* to
+   synchronize access.  If *lock* is ``None`` (the default) then a
+   :class:`multiprocessing.RLock` object is created automatically.
+
+   A synchronized wrapper will have two methods in addition to those of the
+   object it wraps: :meth:`get_obj()` returns the wrapped object and
+   :meth:`get_lock()` returns the lock object used for synchronization.
+
+   Note that accessing the ctypes object through the wrapper can be a lot slower
+   han accessing the raw ctypes object.
+
+
+The table below compares the syntax for creating shared ctypes objects from
+shared memory with the normal ctypes syntax.  (In the table ``MyStruct`` is some
+subclass of :class:`ctypes.Structure`.)
+
+==================== ========================== ===========================
+ctypes               sharedctypes using type    sharedctypes using typecode
+==================== ========================== ===========================
+c_double(2.4)        RawValue(c_double, 2.4)    RawValue('d', 2.4)
+MyStruct(4, 6)       RawValue(MyStruct, 4, 6)
+(c_short * 7)()      RawArray(c_short, 7)       RawArray('h', 7)
+(c_int * 3)(9, 2, 8) RawArray(c_int, (9, 2, 8)) RawArray('i', (9, 2, 8))
+==================== ========================== ===========================
+
+
+Below is an example where a number of ctypes objects are modified by a child
+process::
+
+   from multiprocessing import Process, Lock
+   from multiprocessing.sharedctypes import Value, Array
+   from ctypes import Structure, c_double
+
+   class Point(Structure):
+       _fields_ = [('x', c_double), ('y', c_double)]
+
+   def modify(n, x, s, A):
+       n.value **= 2
+       x.value **= 2
+       s.value = s.value.upper()
+       for a in A:
+           a.x **= 2
+           a.y **= 2
+
+   if __name__ == '__main__':
+       lock = Lock()
+
+       n = Value('i', 7)
+       x = Value(ctypes.c_double, 1.0/3.0, lock=False)
+       s = Array('c', 'hello world', lock=lock)
+       A = Array(Point, [(1.875,-6.25), (-5.75,2.0), (2.375,9.5)], lock=lock)
+
+       p = Process(target=modify, args=(n, x, s, A))
+       p.start()
+       p.join()
+
+       print n.value
+       print x.value
+       print s.value
+       print [(a.x, a.y) for a in A]
+
+
+.. highlightlang:: none
+
+The results printed are ::
+
+    49
+    0.1111111111111111
+    HELLO WORLD
+    [(3.515625, 39.0625), (33.0625, 4.0), (5.640625, 90.25)]
+
+.. highlightlang:: python
+
+
+.. _multiprocessing-managers:
+
+Managers
+~~~~~~~~
+
+Managers provide a way to create data which can be shared between different
+processes. A manager object controls a server process which manages *shared
+objects*.  Other processes can access the shared objects by using proxies.
+
+.. function:: multiprocessing.Manager()
+
+   Returns a started :class:`SyncManager` object which can be used for sharing
+   objects between processes.  The returned manager object corresponds to a
+   spawned child process and has methods which will create shared objects and
+   return corresponding proxies.
+
+.. module:: multiprocessing.managers
+   :synopsis: Share data between process with shared objects.
+
+Manager processes will be shutdown as soon as they are garbage collected or
+their parent process exits.  The manager classes are defined in the
+:mod:`multiprocessing.managers` module:
+
+.. class:: BaseManager([address[, authkey]])
+
+   Create a BaseManager object.
+
+   Once created one should call :meth:`start` or :meth:`serve_forever` to ensure
+   that the manager object refers to a started manager process.
+
+   *address* is the address on which the manager process listens for new
+   connections.  If *address* is ``None`` then an arbitrary one is chosen.
+
+   *authkey* is the authentication key which will be used to check the validity
+   of incoming connections to the server process.  If *authkey* is ``None`` then
+   ``current_process().get_auth_key()``.  Otherwise *authkey* is used and it
+   must be a string.
+
+   .. method:: start()
+
+      Start a subprocess to start the manager.
+
+   .. method:: server_forever()
+
+      Run the server in the current process.
+
+   .. method:: from_address(address, authkey)
+
+      A class method which creates a manager object referring to a pre-existing
+      server process which is using the given address and authentication key.
+
+   .. method:: shutdown()
+
+      Stop the process used by the manager.  This is only available if
+      meth:`start` has been used to start the server process.
+
+      This can be called multiple times.
+
+   .. method:: register(typeid[, callable[, proxytype[, exposed[, method_to_typeid[, create_method]]]]])
+
+      A classmethod which can be used for registering a type or callable with
+      the manager class.
+
+      *typeid* is a "type identifier" which is used to identify a particular
+      type of shared object.  This must be a string.
+
+      *callable* is a callable used for creating objects for this type
+      identifier.  If a manager instance will be created using the
+      :meth:`from_address()` classmethod or if the *create_method* argument is
+      ``False`` then this can be left as ``None``.
+
+      *proxytype* is a subclass of :class:`multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy`
+      which is used to create proxies for shared objects with this *typeid*.  If
+      ``None`` then a proxy class is created automatically.
+
+      *exposed* is used to specify a sequence of method names which proxies for
+      this typeid should be allowed to access using
+      :meth:`BaseProxy._callMethod`.  (If *exposed* is ``None`` then
+      :attr:`proxytype._exposed_` is used instead if it exists.)  In the case
+      where no exposed list is specified, all "public methods" of the shared
+      object will be accessible.  (Here a "public method" means any attribute
+      which has a ``__call__()`` method and whose name does not begin with
+      ``'_'``.)
+
+      *method_to_typeid* is a mapping used to specify the return type of those
+      exposed methods which should return a proxy.  It maps method names to
+      typeid strings.  (If *method_to_typeid* is ``None`` then
+      :attr:`proxytype._method_to_typeid_` is used instead if it exists.)  If a
+      method's name is not a key of this mapping or if the mapping is ``None``
+      then the object returned by the method will be copied by value.
+
+      *create_method* determines whether a method should be created with name
+      *typeid* which can be used to tell the server process to create a new
+      shared object and return a proxy for it.  By default it is ``True``.
+
+   :class:`BaseManager` instances also have one read-only property:
+
+   .. attribute:: address
+
+      The address used by the manager.
+
+
+.. class:: SyncManager
+
+   A subclass of :class:`BaseManager` which can be used for the synchronization
+   of processes.  Objects of this type are returned by
+   :func:`multiprocessing.Manager()`.
+
+   It also supports creation of shared lists and dictionaries.
+
+   .. method:: BoundedSemaphore([value])
+
+      Create a shared :class:`threading.BoundedSemaphore` object and return a
+      proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: Condition([lock])
+
+      Create a shared :class:`threading.Condition` object and return a proxy for
+      it.
+
+      If *lock* is supplied then it should be a proxy for a
+      :class:`threading.Lock` or :class:`threading.RLock` object.
+
+   .. method:: Event()
+
+      Create a shared :class:`threading.Event` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: Lock()
+
+      Create a shared :class:`threading.Lock` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: Namespace()
+
+      Create a shared :class:`Namespace` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: Queue([maxsize])
+
+      Create a shared `Queue.Queue` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: RLock()
+
+      Create a shared :class:`threading.RLock` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: Semaphore([value])
+
+      Create a shared :class:`threading.Semaphore` object and return a proxy for
+      it.
+
+   .. method:: Array(typecode, sequence)
+
+      Create an array and return a proxy for it.  (*format* is ignored.)
+
+   .. method:: Value(typecode, value)
+
+      Create an object with a writable ``value`` attribute and return a proxy
+      for it.
+
+   .. method:: dict()
+               dict(mapping)
+               dict(sequence)
+
+      Create a shared ``dict`` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+   .. method:: list()
+               list(sequence)
+
+      Create a shared ``list`` object and return a proxy for it.
+
+
+Namespace objects
+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+
+A namespace object has no public methods, but does have writable attributes.
+Its representation shows the values of its attributes.
+
+However, when using a proxy for a namespace object, an attribute beginning with
+``'_'`` will be an attribute of the proxy and not an attribute of the referent::
+
+   >>> manager = multiprocessing.Manager()
+   >>> Global = manager.Namespace()
+   >>> Global.x = 10
+   >>> Global.y = 'hello'
+   >>> Global._z = 12.3    # this is an attribute of the proxy
+   >>> print Global
+   Namespace(x=10, y='hello')
+
+
+Customized managers
+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+
+To create one's own manager, one creates a subclass of :class:`BaseManager` and
+use the :meth:`resgister()` classmethod to register new types or callables with
+the manager class.  For example::
+
+   from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager
+
+   class MathsClass(object):
+       def add(self, x, y):
+           return x + y
+       def mul(self, x, y):
+           return x * y
+
+   class MyManager(BaseManager):
+       pass
+
+   MyManager.register('Maths', MathsClass)
+
+   if __name__ == '__main__':
+       manager = MyManager()
+       manager.start()
+       maths = manager.Maths()
+       print maths.add(4, 3)         # prints 7
+       print maths.mul(7, 8)         # prints 56
+
+
+Using a remote manager
+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+
+It is possible to run a manager server on one machine and have clients use it
+from other machines (assuming that the firewalls involved allow it).
+
+Running the following commands creates a server for a single shared queue which
+remote clients can access::
+
+   >>> from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager
+   >>> import Queue
+   >>> queue = Queue.Queue()
+   >>> class QueueManager(BaseManager): pass
+   ...
+   >>> QueueManager.register('getQueue', callable=lambda:queue)
+   >>> m = QueueManager(address=('', 50000), authkey='abracadabra')
+   >>> m.serveForever()
+
+One client can access the server as follows::
+
+   >>> from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager
+   >>> class QueueManager(BaseManager): pass
+   ...
+   >>> QueueManager.register('getQueue')
+   >>> m = QueueManager.from_address(address=('foo.bar.org', 50000),
+   >>> authkey='abracadabra')
+   >>> queue = m.getQueue()
+   >>> queue.put('hello')
+
+Another client can also use it::
+
+   >>> from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager
+   >>> class QueueManager(BaseManager): pass
+   ...
+   >>> QueueManager.register('getQueue')
+   >>> m = QueueManager.from_address(address=('foo.bar.org', 50000), authkey='abracadabra')
+   >>> queue = m.getQueue()
+   >>> queue.get()
+   'hello'
+
+
+Proxy Objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A proxy is an object which *refers* to a shared object which lives (presumably)
+in a different process.  The shared object is said to be the *referent* of the
+proxy.  Multiple proxy objects may have the same referent.
+
+A proxy object has methods which invoke corresponding methods of its referent
+(although not every method of the referent will necessarily be available through
+the proxy).  A proxy can usually be used in most of the same ways that its
+referent can::
+
+   >>> from multiprocessing import Manager
+   >>> manager = Manager()
+   >>> l = manager.list([i*i for i in range(10)])
+   >>> print l
+   [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]
+   >>> print repr(l)
+   <ListProxy object, typeid 'list' at 0xb799974c>
+   >>> l[4]
+   16
+   >>> l[2:5]
+   [4, 9, 16]
+
+Notice that applying :func:`str` to a proxy will return the representation of
+the referent, whereas applying :func:`repr` will return the representation of
+the proxy.
+
+An important feature of proxy objects is that they are picklable so they can be
+passed between processes.  Note, however, that if a proxy is sent to the
+corresponding manager's process then unpickling it will produce the referent
+itself.  This means, for example, that one shared object can contain a second::
+
+   >>> a = manager.list()
+   >>> b = manager.list()
+   >>> a.append(b)         # referent of `a` now contains referent of `b`
+   >>> print a, b
+   [[]] []
+   >>> b.append('hello')
+   >>> print a, b
+   [['hello']] ['hello']
+
+.. note::
+
+   The proxy types in :mod:`multiprocessing` do nothing to support comparisons
+   by value.  So, for instance, ::
+
+       manager.list([1,2,3]) == [1,2,3]
+
+   will return ``False``.  One should just use a copy of the referent instead
+   when making comparisons.
+
+.. class:: BaseProxy
+
+   Proxy objects are instances of subclasses of :class:`BaseProxy`.
+
+   .. method:: _call_method(methodname[, args[, kwds]])
+
+      Call and return the result of a method of the proxy's referent.
+
+      If ``proxy`` is a proxy whose referent is ``obj`` then the expression ::
+
+         proxy._call_method(methodname, args, kwds)
+
+      will evaluate the expression ::
+
+         getattr(obj, methodname)(*args, **kwds)
+
+      in the manager's process.
+
+      The returned value will be a copy of the result of the call or a proxy to
+      a new shared object -- see documentation for the *method_to_typeid*
+      argument of :meth:`BaseManager.register`.
+
+      If an exception is raised by the call, then then is re-raised by
+      :meth:`_call_method`.  If some other exception is raised in the manager's
+      process then this is converted into a :exc:`RemoteError` exception and is
+      raised by :meth:`_call_method`.
+
+      Note in particular that an exception will be raised if *methodname* has
+      not been *exposed*
+
+      An example of the usage of :meth:`_call_method()`::
+
+         >>> l = manager.list(range(10))
+         >>> l._call_method('__len__')
+         10
+         >>> l._call_method('__getslice__', (2, 7))   # equiv to `l[2:7]`
+         [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
+         >>> l._call_method('__getitem__', (20,))     # equiv to `l[20]`
+         Traceback (most recent call last):
+         ...
+         IndexError: list index out of range
+
+   .. method:: _get_value()
+
+      Return a copy of the referent.
+
+      If the referent is unpicklable then this will raise an exception.
+
+   .. method:: __repr__
+
+      Return a representation of the proxy object.
+
+   .. method:: __str__
+
+      Return the representation of the referent.
+
+
+Cleanup
+>>>>>>>
+
+A proxy object uses a weakref callback so that when it gets garbage collected it
+deregisters itself from the manager which owns its referent.
+
+A shared object gets deleted from the manager process when there are no longer
+any proxies referring to it.
+
+
+Process Pools
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. module:: multiprocessing.pool
+   :synopsis: Create pools of processes.
+
+One can create a pool of processes which will carry out tasks submitted to it
+with the :class:`Pool` class in :mod:`multiprocess.pool`.
+
+.. class:: multiprocessing.Pool([processes[, initializer[, initargs]]])
+
+   A process pool object which controls a pool of worker processes to which jobs
+   can be submitted.  It supports asynchronous results with timeouts and
+   callbacks and has a parallel map implementation.
+
+   *processes* is the number of worker processes to use.  If *processes* is
+   ``None`` then the number returned by :func:`cpu_count` is used.  If
+   *initializer* is not ``None`` then each worker process will call
+   ``initializer(*initargs)`` when it starts.
+
+   .. method:: apply(func[, args[, kwds]])
+
+      Equivalent of the :func:`apply` builtin function.  It blocks till the
+      result is ready.
+
+   .. method:: apply_async(func[, args[, kwds[, callback]]])
+
+      A variant of the :meth:`apply` method which returns a result object.
+
+      If *callback* is specified then it should be a callable which accepts a
+      single argument.  When the result becomes ready *callback* is applied to
+      it (unless the call failed).  *callback* should complete immediately since
+      otherwise the thread which handles the results will get blocked.
+
+   .. method:: map(func, iterable[, chunksize])
+
+      A parallel equivalent of the :func:`map` builtin function.  It blocks till
+      the result is ready.
+
+      This method chops the iterable into a number of chunks which it submits to
+      the process pool as separate tasks.  The (approximate) size of these
+      chunks can be specified by setting *chunksize* to a positive integer.
+
+   .. method:: map_async(func, iterable[, chunksize[, callback]])
+
+      A variant of the :meth:`.map` method which returns a result object.
+
+      If *callback* is specified then it should be a callable which accepts a
+      single argument.  When the result becomes ready *callback* is applied to
+      it (unless the call failed).  *callback* should complete immediately since
+      otherwise the thread which handles the results will get blocked.
+
+   .. method:: imap(func, iterable[, chunksize])
+
+      An equivalent of :func:`itertools.imap`.
+
+      The *chunksize* argument is the same as the one used by the :meth:`.map`
+      method.  For very long iterables using a large value for *chunksize* can
+      make make the job complete **much** faster than using the default value of
+      ``1``.
+
+      Also if *chunksize* is ``1`` then the :meth:`next` method of the iterator
+      returned by the :meth:`imap` method has an optional *timeout* parameter:
+      ``next(timeout)`` will raise :exc:`multiprocessing.TimeoutError` if the
+      result cannot be returned within *timeout* seconds.
+
+   .. method:: imap_unordered(func, iterable[, chunksize])
+
+      The same as :meth:`imap` except that the ordering of the results from the
+      returned iterator should be considered arbitrary.  (Only when there is
+      only one worker process is the order guaranteed to be "correct".)
+
+   .. method:: close()
+
+      Prevents any more tasks from being submitted to the pool.  Once all the
+      tasks have been completed the worker processes will exit.
+
+   .. method:: terminate()
+
+      Stops the worker processes immediately without completing outstanding
+      work.  When the pool object is garbage collected :meth:`terminate` will be
+      called immediately.
+
+   .. method:: join()
+
+      Wait for the worker processes to exit.  One must call :meth:`close` or
+      :meth:`terminate` before using :meth:`join`.
+
+
+.. class:: AsyncResult
+
+   The class of the result returned by :meth:`Pool.apply_async` and
+   :meth:`Pool.map_async`.
+
+   .. method:: get([timeout)
+
+      Return the result when it arrives.  If *timeout* is not ``None`` and the
+      result does not arrive within *timeout* seconds then
+      :exc:`multiprocessing.TimeoutError` is raised.  If the remote call raised
+      an exception then that exception will be reraised by :meth:`get`.
+
+   .. method:: wait([timeout])
+
+      Wait until the result is available or until *timeout* seconds pass.
+
+   .. method:: ready()
+
+      Return whether the call has completed.
+
+   .. method:: successful()
+
+      Return whether the call completed without raising an exception.  Will
+      raise :exc:`AssertionError` if the result is not ready.
+
+The following example demonstrates the use of a pool::
+
+   from multiprocessing import Pool
+
+   def f(x):
+       return x*x
+
+   if __name__ == '__main__':
+       pool = Pool(processes=4)              # start 4 worker processes
+
+       result = pool.applyAsync(f, (10,))    # evaluate "f(10)" asynchronously
+       print result.get(timeout=1)           # prints "100" unless your computer is *very* slow
+
+       print pool.map(f, range(10))          # prints "[0, 1, 4,..., 81]"
+
+       it = pool.imap(f, range(10))
+       print it.next()                       # prints "0"
+       print it.next()                       # prints "1"
+       print it.next(timeout=1)              # prints "4" unless your computer is *very* slow
+
+       import time
+       result = pool.applyAsync(time.sleep, (10,))
+       print result.get(timeout=1)           # raises TimeoutError
+
+
+.. _multiprocessing-listeners-clients:
+
+Listeners and Clients
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. module:: multiprocessing.connection
+   :synopsis: API for dealing with sockets.
+
+Usually message passing between processes is done using queues or by using
+:class:`Connection` objects returned by :func:`Pipe`.
+
+However, the :mod:`multiprocessing.connection` module allows some extra
+flexibility.  It basically gives a high level message oriented API for dealing
+with sockets or Windows named pipes, and also has support for *digest
+authentication* using the :mod:`hmac` module from the standard library.
+
+
+.. function:: deliver_challenge(connection, authkey)
+
+   Send a randomly generated message to the other end of the connection and wait
+   for a reply.
+
+   If the reply matches the digest of the message using *authkey* as the key
+   then a welcome message is sent to the other end of the connection.  Otherwise
+   :exc:`AuthenticationError` is raised.
+
+.. function:: answerChallenge(connection, authkey)
+
+   Receive a message, calculate the digest of the message using *authkey* as the
+   key, and then send the digest back.
+
+   If a welcome message is not received, then :exc:`AuthenticationError` is
+   raised.
+
+.. function:: Client(address[, family[, authenticate[, authkey]]])
+
+   Attempt to set up a connection to the listener which is using address
+   *address*, returning a :class:`Connection`.
+
+   The type of the connection is determined by *family* argument, but this can
+   generally be omitted since it can usually be inferred from the format of
+   *address*. (See :ref:`multiprocessing-address-formats`)
+
+   If *authentication* is ``True`` or *authkey* is a string then digest
+   authentication is used.  The key used for authentication will be either
+   *authkey* or ``current_process().get_auth_key()`` if *authkey* is ``None``.
+   If authentication fails then :exc:`AuthenticationError` is raised.  See
+   :ref:`multiprocessing-auth-keys`.
+
+.. class:: Listener([address[, family[, backlog[, authenticate[, authkey]]]]])
+
+   A wrapper for a bound socket or Windows named pipe which is 'listening' for
+   connections.
+
+   *address* is the address to be used by the bound socket or named pipe of the
+   listener object.
+
+   *family* is the type of socket (or named pipe) to use.  This can be one of
+   the strings ``'AF_INET'`` (for a TCP socket), ``'AF_UNIX'`` (for a Unix
+   domain socket) or ``'AF_PIPE'`` (for a Windows named pipe).  Of these only
+   the first is guaranteed to be available.  If *family* is ``None`` then the
+   family is inferred from the format of *address*.  If *address* is also
+   ``None`` then a default is chosen.  This default is the family which is
+   assumed to be the fastest available.  See
+   :ref:`multiprocessing-address-formats`.  Note that if *family* is
+   ``'AF_UNIX'`` and address is ``None`` then the socket will be created in a
+   private temporary directory created using :func:`tempfile.mkstemp`.
+
+   If the listener object uses a socket then *backlog* (1 by default) is passed
+   to the :meth:`listen` method of the socket once it has been bound.
+
+   If *authenticate* is ``True`` (``False`` by default) or *authkey* is not
+   ``None`` then digest authentication is used.
+
+   If *authkey* is a string then it will be used as the authentication key;
+   otherwise it must be *None*.
+
+   If *authkey* is ``None`` and *authenticate* is ``True`` then
+   ``current_process().get_auth_key()`` is used as the authentication key.  If
+   *authkey* is ``None`` and *authentication* is ``False`` then no
+   authentication is done.  If authentication fails then
+   :exc:`AuthenticationError` is raised.  See :ref:`multiprocessing-auth-keys`.
+
+   .. method:: accept()
+
+      Accept a connection on the bound socket or named pipe of the listener
+      object and return a :class:`Connection` object.  If authentication is
+      attempted and fails, then :exc:`AuthenticationError` is raised.
+
+   .. method:: close()
+
+      Close the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object.  This is
+      called automatically when the listener is garbage collected.  However it
+      is advisable to call it explicitly.
+
+   Listener objects have the following read-only properties:
+
+   .. attribute:: address
+
+      The address which is being used by the Listener object.
+
+   .. attribute:: last_accepted
+
+      The address from which the last accepted connection came.  If this is
+      unavailable then it is ``None``.
+
+
+The module defines two exceptions:
+
+.. exception:: AuthenticationError
+
+   Exception raised when there is an authentication error.
+
+.. exception:: BufferTooShort
+
+   Exception raise by the :meth:`Connection.recv_bytes_into` method of a
+   connection object when the supplied buffer object is too small for the
+   message read.
+
+   If *e* is an instance of :exc:`BufferTooShort` then ``e.args[0]`` will give
+   the message as a byte string.
+
+
+**Examples**
+
+The following server code creates a listener which uses ``'secret password'`` as
+an authentication key.  It then waits for a connection and sends some data to
+the client::
+
+   from multiprocessing.connection import Listener
+   from array import array
+
+   address = ('localhost', 6000)     # family is deduced to be 'AF_INET'
+   listener = Listener(address, authkey='secret password')
+
+   conn = listener.accept()
+   print 'connection accepted from', listener.last_accepted
+
+   conn.send([2.25, None, 'junk', float])
+
+   conn.send_bytes('hello')
+
+   conn.send_bytes(array('i', [42, 1729]))
+
+   conn.close()
+   listener.close()
+
+The following code connects to the server and receives some data from the
+server::
+
+   from multiprocessing.connection import Client
+   from array import array
+
+   address = ('localhost', 6000)
+   conn = Client(address, authkey='secret password')
+
+   print conn.recv()                 # => [2.25, None, 'junk', float]
+
+   print conn.recv_bytes()            # => 'hello'
+
+   arr = array('i', [0, 0, 0, 0, 0])
+   print conn.recv_bytes_into(arr)     # => 8
+   print arr                         # => array('i', [42, 1729, 0, 0, 0])
+
+   conn.close()
+
+
+.. _multiprocessing-address-formats:
+
+Address Formats
+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+
+* An ``'AF_INET'`` address is a tuple of the form ``(hostname, port)``` where
+  *hostname* is a string and *port* is an integer.
+
+* An ``'AF_UNIX'``` address is a string representing a filename on the
+  filesystem.
+
+* An ``'AF_PIPE'`` address is a string of the form
+   ``r'\\\\.\\pipe\\PipeName'``.  To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named
+   pipe on a remote computer called ServerName* one should use an address of the
+   form ``r'\\\\ServerName\\pipe\\PipeName'`` instead.
+
+Note that any string beginning with two backslashes is assumed by default to be
+an ``'AF_PIPE'`` address rather than an ``'AF_UNIX'`` address.
+
+
+.. _multiprocessing-auth-keys:
+
+Authentication keys
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When one uses :meth:`Connection.recv`, the data received is automatically
+unpickled.  Unfortunately unpickling data from an untrusted source is a security
+risk.  Therefore :class:`Listener` and :func:`Client` use the :mod:`hmac` module
+to provide digest authentication.
+
+An authentication key is a string which can be thought of as a password: once a
+connection is established both ends will demand proof that the other knows the
+authentication key.  (Demonstrating that both ends are using the same key does
+**not** involve sending the key over the connection.)
+
+If authentication is requested but do authentication key is specified then the
+return value of ``current_process().get_auth_key`` is used (see
+:class:`Process`).  This value will automatically inherited by any
+:class:`Process` object that the current process creates.  This means that (by
+default) all processes of a multi-process program will share a single
+authentication key which can be used when setting up connections between the
+themselves.
+
+Suitable authentication keys can also be generated by using :func:`os.urandom`.
+
+
+Logging
+~~~~~~~
+
+Some support for logging is available.  Note, however, that the :mod:`logging`
+package does not use process shared locks so it is possible (depending on the
+handler type) for messages from different processes to get mixed up.
+
+.. currentmodule:: multiprocessing
+.. function:: get_logger()
+
+   Returns the logger used by :mod:`multiprocessing`.  If necessary, a new one
+   will be created.
+
+   When first created the logger has level :data:`logging.NOTSET` and has a
+   handler which sends output to :data:`sys.stderr` using format
+   ``'[%(levelname)s/%(processName)s] %(message)s'``.  (The logger allows use of
+   the non-standard ``'%(processName)s'`` format.)  Message sent to this logger
+   will not by default propogate to the root logger.
+
+   Note that on Windows child processes will only inherit the level of the
+   parent process's logger -- any other customization of the logger will not be
+   inherited.
+
+Below is an example session with logging turned on::
+
+    >>> import processing, logging
+    >>> logger = processing.getLogger()
+    >>> logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    >>> logger.warning('doomed')
+    [WARNING/MainProcess] doomed
+    >>> m = processing.Manager()
+    [INFO/SyncManager-1] child process calling self.run()
+    [INFO/SyncManager-1] manager bound to '\\\\.\\pipe\\pyc-2776-0-lj0tfa'
+    >>> del m
+    [INFO/MainProcess] sending shutdown message to manager
+    [INFO/SyncManager-1] manager exiting with exitcode 0
+
+
+The :mod:`multiprocessing.dummy` module
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. module:: multiprocessing.dummy
+   :synopsis: Dumb wrapper around threading.
+
+:mod:`multiprocessing.dummy` replicates the API of :mod:`multiprocessing` but is
+no more than a wrapper around the `threading` module.
+
+
+.. _multiprocessing-programming:
+
+Programming guidelines
+----------------------
+
+There are certain guidelines and idioms which should be adhered to when using
+:mod:`multiprocessing`.
+
+
+All platforms
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Avoid shared state
+
+    As far as possible one should try to avoid shifting large amounts of data
+    between processes.
+
+    It is probably best to stick to using queues or pipes for communication
+    between processes rather than using the lower level synchronization
+    primitives from the :mod:`threading` module.
+
+Picklability
+
+    Ensure that the arguments to the methods of proxies are picklable.
+
+Thread safety of proxies
+
+    Do not use a proxy object from more than one thread unless you protect it
+    with a lock.
+
+    (There is never a problem with different processes using the *same* proxy.)
+
+Joining zombie processes
+
+    On Unix when a process finishes but has not been joined it becomes a zombie.
+    There should never be very many because each time a new process starts (or
+    :func:`active_children` is called) all completed processes which have not
+    yet been joined will be joined.  Also calling a finished process's
+    :meth:`Process.is_alive` will join the process.  Even so it is probably good
+    practice to explicitly join all the processes that you start.
+
+Better to inherit than pickle/unpickle
+
+    On Windows many of types from :mod:`multiprocessing` need to be picklable so
+    that child processes can use them.  However, one should generally avoid
+    sending shared objects to other processes using pipes or queues.  Instead
+    you should arrange the program so that a process which need access to a
+    shared resource created elsewhere can inherit it from an ancestor process.
+
+Avoid terminating processes
+
+    Using the :meth:`Process.terminate` method to stop a process is liable to
+    cause any shared resources (such as locks, semaphores, pipes and queues)
+    currently being used by the process to become broken or unavailable to other
+    processes.
+
+    Therefore it is probably best to only consider using
+    :meth:`Process.terminate()` on processes which never use any shared
+    resources.
+
+Joining processes that use queues
+
+    Bear in mind that a process that has put items in a queue will wait before
+    terminating until all the buffered items are fed by the "feeder" thread to
+    the underlying pipe.  (The child process can call the
+    :meth:`Queue.cancel_join` method of the queue to avoid this behaviour.)
+
+    This means that whenever you use a queue you need to make sure that all
+    items which have been put on the queue will eventually be removed before the
+    process is joined.  Otherwise you cannot be sure that processes which have
+    put items on the queue will terminate.  Remember also that non-daemonic
+    processes will be automatically be joined.
+
+    An example which will deadlock is the following::
+
+        from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
+
+        def f(q):
+            q.put('X' * 1000000)
+
+        if __name__ == '__main__':
+            queue = Queue()
+            p = Process(target=f, args=(queue,))
+            p.start()
+            p.join()                    # this deadlocks
+            obj = queue.get()
+
+    A fix here would be to swap the last two lines round (or simply remove the
+    ``p.join()`` line).
+
+Explicity pass resources to child processes
+
+    On Unix a child process can make use of a shared resource created in a
+    parent process using a global resource.  However, it is better to pass the
+    object as an argument to the constructor for the child process.
+
+    Apart from making the code (potentially) compatible with Windows this also
+    ensures that as long as the child process is still alive the object will not
+    be garbage collected in the parent process.  This might be important if some
+    resource is freed when the object is garbage collected in the parent
+    process.
+
+    So for instance ::
+
+        from multiprocessing import Process, Lock
+
+        def f():
+            ... do something using "lock" ...
+
+        if __name__ == '__main__':
+           lock = Lock()
+           for i in range(10):
+                Process(target=f).start()
+
+    should be rewritten as ::
+
+        from multiprocessing import Process, Lock
+
+        def f(l):
+            ... do something using "l" ...
+
+        if __name__ == '__main__':
+           lock = Lock()
+           for i in range(10):
+                Process(target=f, args=(lock,)).start()
+
+
+Windows
+~~~~~~~
+
+Since Windows lacks :func:`os.fork` it has a few extra restrictions:
+
+More picklability
+
+    Ensure that all arguments to :meth:`Process.__init__` are picklable.  This
+    means, in particular, that bound or unbound methods cannot be used directly
+    as the ``target`` argument on Windows --- just define a function and use
+    that instead.
+
+    Also, if you subclass :class:`Process` then make sure that instances will be
+    picklable when the :meth:`Process.start` method is called.
+
+Global variables
+
+    Bear in mind that if code run in a child process tries to access a global
+    variable, then the value it sees (if any) may not be the same as the value
+    in the parent process at the time that :meth:`Process.start` was called.
+
+    However, global variables which are just module level constants cause no
+    problems.
+
+Safe importing of main module
+
+    Make sure that the main module can be safely imported by a new Python
+    interpreter without causing unintended side effects (such a starting a new
+    process).
+
+    For example, under Windows running the following module would fail with a
+    :exc:`RuntimeError`::
+
+        from multiprocessing import Process
+
+        def foo():
+            print 'hello'
+
+        p = Process(target=foo)
+        p.start()
+
+    Instead one should protect the "entry point" of the program by using ``if
+    __name__ == '__main__':`` as follows::
+
+       from multiprocessing import Process, freeze_support
+
+       def foo():
+           print 'hello'
+
+       if __name__ == '__main__':
+           freeze_support()
+           p = Process(target=foo)
+           p.start()
+
+    (The :func:`freeze_support()` line can be omitted if the program will be run
+    normally instead of frozen.)
+
+    This allows the newly spawned Python interpreter to safely import the module
+    and then run the module's ``foo()`` function.
+
+    Similar restrictions apply if a pool or manager is created in the main
+    module.
+
+
+.. _multiprocessing-examples:
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+Demonstration of how to create and use customized managers and proxies:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_newtype.py
+
+
+Using :class:`Pool`:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_pool.py
+
+
+Synchronization types like locks, conditions and queues:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_synchronize.py
+
+
+An showing how to use queues to feed tasks to a collection of worker process and
+collect the results:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_workers.py
+
+
+An example of how a pool of worker processes can each run a
+:class:`SimpleHTTPServer.HttpServer` instance while sharing a single listening
+socket.
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_webserver.py
+
+
+Some simple benchmarks comparing :mod:`multiprocessing` with :mod:`threading`:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_benchmarks.py
+
+An example/demo of how to use the :class:`managers.SyncManager`, :class:`Process`
+and others to build a system which can distribute processes and work via a 
+distributed queue to a "cluster" of machines on a network, accessible via SSH.
+You will need to have private key authentication for all hosts configured for
+this to work.
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../includes/mp_distributing.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Doc/library/someos.rst b/Doc/library/someos.rst
index 5ee96bc..0e2013b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/someos.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/someos.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
    threading.rst
    dummy_thread.rst
    dummy_threading.rst
+   multiprocessing.rst
    mmap.rst
    readline.rst
    rlcompleter.rst
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5352be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+#
+# Package analogous to 'threading.py' but using processes
+#
+# multiprocessing/__init__.py
+#
+# This package is intended to duplicate the functionality (and much of
+# the API) of threading.py but uses processes instead of threads.  A
+# subpackage 'multiprocessing.dummy' has the same API but is a simple
+# wrapper for 'threading'.
+#
+# Try calling `multiprocessing.doc.main()` to read the html
+# documentation in in a webbrowser.
+#
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+# are met:
+#
+# 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+# 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+#    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+# 3. Neither the name of author nor the names of any contributors may be
+#    used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+#    without specific prior written permission.
+#
+# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
+# ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+# IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+# ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+# FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+# DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+# OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+# HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+# LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+# OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+#
+
+__version__ = '0.70a1'
+
+__all__ = [
+    'Process', 'current_process', 'active_children', 'freeze_support',
+    'Manager', 'Pipe', 'cpu_count', 'log_to_stderr', 'get_logger',
+    'allow_connection_pickling', 'BufferTooShort', 'TimeoutError',
+    'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'Condition',
+    'Event', 'Queue', 'JoinableQueue', 'Pool', 'Value', 'Array',
+    'RawValue', 'RawArray'
+    ]
+
+__author__ = 'R. Oudkerk (r.m.oudkerk@gmail.com)'
+
+#
+# Imports
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+import _multiprocessing
+from multiprocessing.process import Process, current_process, active_children
+
+#
+# Exceptions
+#
+
+class ProcessError(Exception):
+    pass
+    
+class BufferTooShort(ProcessError):
+    pass
+    
+class TimeoutError(ProcessError):
+    pass
+
+class AuthenticationError(ProcessError):
+    pass
+
+#
+# Definitions not depending on native semaphores
+#
+
+def Manager():
+    '''
+    Returns a manager associated with a running server process
+
+    The managers methods such as `Lock()`, `Condition()` and `Queue()`
+    can be used to create shared objects.
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.managers import SyncManager
+    m = SyncManager()
+    m.start()
+    return m
+
+def Pipe(duplex=True):
+    '''
+    Returns two connection object connected by a pipe
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.connection import Pipe
+    return Pipe(duplex)
+
+def cpu_count():
+    '''
+    Returns the number of CPUs in the system
+    '''
+    if sys.platform == 'win32':
+        try:
+            num = int(os.environ['NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS'])
+        except (ValueError, KeyError):
+            num = 0
+    elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+        try:
+            num = int(os.popen('sysctl -n hw.ncpu').read())
+        except ValueError:
+            num = 0
+    else:
+        try:
+            num = os.sysconf('SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN')
+        except (ValueError, OSError, AttributeError):
+            num = 0
+        
+    if num >= 1:
+        return num
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError('cannot determine number of cpus')
+
+def freeze_support():
+    '''
+    Check whether this is a fake forked process in a frozen executable.
+    If so then run code specified by commandline and exit.
+    '''
+    if sys.platform == 'win32' and getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
+        from multiprocessing.forking import freeze_support
+        freeze_support()
+
+def get_logger():
+    '''
+    Return package logger -- if it does not already exist then it is created
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.util import get_logger
+    return get_logger()
+
+def log_to_stderr(level=None):
+    '''
+    Turn on logging and add a handler which prints to stderr
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.util import log_to_stderr
+    return log_to_stderr(level)
+    
+def allow_connection_pickling():
+    '''
+    Install support for sending connections and sockets between processes
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing import reduction
+    
+#
+# Definitions depending on native semaphores
+#
+
+def Lock():
+    '''
+    Returns a non-recursive lock object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.synchronize import Lock
+    return Lock()
+
+def RLock():
+    '''
+    Returns a recursive lock object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.synchronize import RLock
+    return RLock()
+
+def Condition(lock=None):
+    '''
+    Returns a condition object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.synchronize import Condition
+    return Condition(lock)
+
+def Semaphore(value=1):
+    '''
+    Returns a semaphore object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.synchronize import Semaphore
+    return Semaphore(value)
+
+def BoundedSemaphore(value=1):
+    '''
+    Returns a bounded semaphore object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.synchronize import BoundedSemaphore
+    return BoundedSemaphore(value)
+
+def Event():
+    '''
+    Returns an event object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.synchronize import Event
+    return Event()
+
+def Queue(maxsize=0):
+    '''
+    Returns a queue object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.queues import Queue
+    return Queue(maxsize)
+
+def JoinableQueue(maxsize=0):
+    '''
+    Returns a queue object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.queues import JoinableQueue
+    return JoinableQueue(maxsize)
+
+def Pool(processes=None, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+    '''
+    Returns a process pool object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.pool import Pool
+    return Pool(processes, initializer, initargs)
+
+def RawValue(typecode_or_type, *args):
+    '''
+    Returns a shared object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.sharedctypes import RawValue
+    return RawValue(typecode_or_type, *args)
+
+def RawArray(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer):
+    '''
+    Returns a shared array
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.sharedctypes import RawArray
+    return RawArray(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer)
+
+def Value(typecode_or_type, *args, **kwds):
+    '''
+    Returns a synchronized shared object
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.sharedctypes import Value
+    return Value(typecode_or_type, *args, **kwds)
+
+def Array(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer, **kwds):
+    '''
+    Returns a synchronized shared array
+    '''
+    from multiprocessing.sharedctypes import Array
+    return Array(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer, **kwds)
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+
+    def set_executable(executable):
+        '''
+        Sets the path to a python.exe or pythonw.exe binary used to run
+        child processes on Windows instead of sys.executable.
+        Useful for people embedding Python. 
+        '''
+        from multiprocessing.forking import set_executable
+        set_executable(executable)
+
+    __all__ += ['set_executable']
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..752d9ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,425 @@
+#
+# A higher level module for using sockets (or Windows named pipes)
+#
+# multiprocessing/connection.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = [ 'Client', 'Listener', 'Pipe' ]
+
+import os
+import sys
+import socket
+import time
+import tempfile
+import itertools
+
+import _multiprocessing
+from multiprocessing import current_process
+from multiprocessing.util import get_temp_dir, Finalize, sub_debug, debug
+from multiprocessing.forking import duplicate, close
+
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+BUFSIZE = 8192
+
+_mmap_counter = itertools.count()
+
+default_family = 'AF_INET'
+families = ['AF_INET']
+
+if hasattr(socket, 'AF_UNIX'):
+    default_family = 'AF_UNIX'
+    families += ['AF_UNIX']
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    default_family = 'AF_PIPE'
+    families += ['AF_PIPE']
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+def arbitrary_address(family):
+    '''
+    Return an arbitrary free address for the given family
+    '''
+    if family == 'AF_INET':
+        return ('localhost', 0)
+    elif family == 'AF_UNIX':        
+        return tempfile.mktemp(prefix='listener-', dir=get_temp_dir())
+    elif family == 'AF_PIPE':
+        return tempfile.mktemp(prefix=r'\\.\pipe\pyc-%d-%d-' %
+                               (os.getpid(), _mmap_counter.next()))
+    else:
+        raise ValueError('unrecognized family')
+
+
+def address_type(address):
+    '''
+    Return the types of the address
+
+    This can be 'AF_INET', 'AF_UNIX', or 'AF_PIPE'
+    '''
+    if type(address) == tuple:
+        return 'AF_INET'
+    elif type(address) is str and address.startswith('\\\\'):
+        return 'AF_PIPE'
+    elif type(address) is str:
+        return 'AF_UNIX'
+    else:
+        raise ValueError('address type of %r unrecognized' % address)
+
+#
+# Public functions
+#
+
+class Listener(object):
+    '''
+    Returns a listener object.
+
+    This is a wrapper for a bound socket which is 'listening' for
+    connections, or for a Windows named pipe.
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, address=None, family=None, backlog=1, authkey=None):
+        family = family or (address and address_type(address)) \
+                 or default_family
+        address = address or arbitrary_address(family)
+
+        if family == 'AF_PIPE':
+            self._listener = PipeListener(address, backlog)
+        else:
+            self._listener = SocketListener(address, family, backlog)
+
+        if authkey is not None and not isinstance(authkey, bytes):
+            raise TypeError, 'authkey should be a byte string'
+
+        self._authkey = authkey
+
+    def accept(self):
+        '''
+        Accept a connection on the bound socket or named pipe of `self`.
+
+        Returns a `Connection` object.
+        '''
+        c = self._listener.accept()
+        if self._authkey:
+            deliver_challenge(c, self._authkey)
+            answer_challenge(c, self._authkey)
+        return c
+
+    def close(self):
+        '''
+        Close the bound socket or named pipe of `self`.
+        '''
+        return self._listener.close()
+
+    address = property(lambda self: self._listener._address)
+    last_accepted = property(lambda self: self._listener._last_accepted)
+
+
+def Client(address, family=None, authkey=None):
+    '''
+    Returns a connection to the address of a `Listener`
+    '''
+    family = family or address_type(address)
+    if family == 'AF_PIPE':
+        c = PipeClient(address)
+    else:
+        c = SocketClient(address)
+
+    if authkey is not None and not isinstance(authkey, bytes):
+        raise TypeError, 'authkey should be a byte string'
+
+    if authkey is not None:
+        answer_challenge(c, authkey)
+        deliver_challenge(c, authkey)
+
+    return c
+
+
+if sys.platform != 'win32':
+
+    def Pipe(duplex=True):
+        '''
+        Returns pair of connection objects at either end of a pipe
+        '''
+        if duplex:
+            s1, s2 = socket.socketpair()
+            c1 = _multiprocessing.Connection(os.dup(s1.fileno()))
+            c2 = _multiprocessing.Connection(os.dup(s2.fileno()))
+            s1.close()
+            s2.close()
+        else:
+            fd1, fd2 = os.pipe()
+            c1 = _multiprocessing.Connection(fd1, writable=False)
+            c2 = _multiprocessing.Connection(fd2, readable=False)
+
+        return c1, c2
+    
+else:
+
+    from ._multiprocessing import win32
+
+    def Pipe(duplex=True):
+        '''
+        Returns pair of connection objects at either end of a pipe
+        '''
+        address = arbitrary_address('AF_PIPE')
+        if duplex:
+            openmode = win32.PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX
+            access = win32.GENERIC_READ | win32.GENERIC_WRITE
+            obsize, ibsize = BUFSIZE, BUFSIZE
+        else:
+            openmode = win32.PIPE_ACCESS_INBOUND
+            access = win32.GENERIC_WRITE
+            obsize, ibsize = 0, BUFSIZE
+
+        h1 = win32.CreateNamedPipe(
+            address, openmode,
+            win32.PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE | win32.PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE |
+            win32.PIPE_WAIT,
+            1, obsize, ibsize, win32.NMPWAIT_WAIT_FOREVER, win32.NULL
+            )
+        h2 = win32.CreateFile(
+            address, access, 0, win32.NULL, win32.OPEN_EXISTING, 0, win32.NULL
+            )
+        win32.SetNamedPipeHandleState(
+            h2, win32.PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE, None, None
+            )
+
+        try:
+            win32.ConnectNamedPipe(h1, win32.NULL)
+        except WindowsError, e:
+            if e.args[0] != win32.ERROR_PIPE_CONNECTED:
+                raise
+
+        c1 = _multiprocessing.PipeConnection(h1, writable=duplex)
+        c2 = _multiprocessing.PipeConnection(h2, readable=duplex)
+        
+        return c1, c2
+
+#
+# Definitions for connections based on sockets
+#
+
+class SocketListener(object):
+    '''
+    Represtation of a socket which is bound to an address and listening
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, address, family, backlog=1):
+        self._socket = socket.socket(getattr(socket, family))
+        self._socket.bind(address)
+        self._socket.listen(backlog)
+        address = self._socket.getsockname()
+        if type(address) is tuple:
+            address = (socket.getfqdn(address[0]),) + address[1:]
+        self._address = address
+        self._family = family
+        self._last_accepted = None
+
+        sub_debug('listener bound to address %r', self._address)
+
+        if family == 'AF_UNIX':
+            self._unlink = Finalize(
+                self, os.unlink, args=(self._address,), exitpriority=0
+                )
+        else:
+            self._unlink = None
+
+    def accept(self):
+        s, self._last_accepted = self._socket.accept()
+        fd = duplicate(s.fileno())
+        conn = _multiprocessing.Connection(fd)
+        s.close()
+        return conn
+
+    def close(self):
+        self._socket.close()
+        if self._unlink is not None:
+            self._unlink()
+
+
+def SocketClient(address):
+    '''
+    Return a connection object connected to the socket given by `address`
+    '''
+    family = address_type(address)
+    s = socket.socket( getattr(socket, family) )
+
+    while 1:
+        try:
+            s.connect(address)
+        except socket.error, e:
+            if e.args[0] != 10061:    # 10061 => connection refused
+                debug('failed to connect to address %s', address)
+                raise
+            time.sleep(0.01)
+        else:
+            break
+    else:
+        raise
+
+    fd = duplicate(s.fileno())
+    conn = _multiprocessing.Connection(fd)
+    s.close()
+    return conn
+
+#
+# Definitions for connections based on named pipes
+#
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+
+    class PipeListener(object):
+        '''
+        Representation of a named pipe
+        '''
+        def __init__(self, address, backlog=None):
+            self._address = address
+            handle = win32.CreateNamedPipe(
+                address, win32.PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX,
+                win32.PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE | win32.PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE |
+                win32.PIPE_WAIT,
+                win32.PIPE_UNLIMITED_INSTANCES, BUFSIZE, BUFSIZE,
+                win32.NMPWAIT_WAIT_FOREVER, win32.NULL
+                )
+            self._handle_queue = [handle]
+            self._last_accepted = None
+            
+            sub_debug('listener created with address=%r', self._address)
+
+            self.close = Finalize(
+                self, PipeListener._finalize_pipe_listener,
+                args=(self._handle_queue, self._address), exitpriority=0
+                )
+            
+        def accept(self):
+            newhandle = win32.CreateNamedPipe(
+                self._address, win32.PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX,
+                win32.PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE | win32.PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE |
+                win32.PIPE_WAIT,
+                win32.PIPE_UNLIMITED_INSTANCES, BUFSIZE, BUFSIZE,
+                win32.NMPWAIT_WAIT_FOREVER, win32.NULL
+                )
+            self._handle_queue.append(newhandle)
+            handle = self._handle_queue.pop(0)
+            try:
+                win32.ConnectNamedPipe(handle, win32.NULL)
+            except WindowsError, e:
+                if e.args[0] != win32.ERROR_PIPE_CONNECTED:
+                    raise
+            return _multiprocessing.PipeConnection(handle)
+
+        @staticmethod
+        def _finalize_pipe_listener(queue, address):
+            sub_debug('closing listener with address=%r', address)
+            for handle in queue:
+                close(handle)
+        
+    def PipeClient(address):
+        '''
+        Return a connection object connected to the pipe given by `address`
+        '''
+        while 1:
+            try:
+                win32.WaitNamedPipe(address, 1000)
+                h = win32.CreateFile(
+                    address, win32.GENERIC_READ | win32.GENERIC_WRITE,
+                    0, win32.NULL, win32.OPEN_EXISTING, 0, win32.NULL
+                    )
+            except WindowsError, e:
+                if e.args[0] not in (win32.ERROR_SEM_TIMEOUT,
+                                     win32.ERROR_PIPE_BUSY):
+                    raise
+            else:
+                break
+        else:
+            raise
+
+        win32.SetNamedPipeHandleState(
+            h, win32.PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE, None, None
+            )
+        return _multiprocessing.PipeConnection(h)
+
+#
+# Authentication stuff
+#
+
+MESSAGE_LENGTH = 20
+
+CHALLENGE = '#CHALLENGE#'
+WELCOME = '#WELCOME#'
+FAILURE = '#FAILURE#'
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):         # XXX can use bytes literals in 2.6/3.0
+    CHALLENGE = CHALLENGE.encode('ascii')
+    WELCOME = WELCOME.encode('ascii')
+    FAILURE = FAILURE.encode('ascii')
+
+def deliver_challenge(connection, authkey):
+    import hmac
+    assert isinstance(authkey, bytes)
+    message = os.urandom(MESSAGE_LENGTH)
+    connection.send_bytes(CHALLENGE + message)
+    digest = hmac.new(authkey, message).digest()
+    response = connection.recv_bytes(256)        # reject large message
+    if response == digest:
+        connection.send_bytes(WELCOME)
+    else:
+        connection.send_bytes(FAILURE)
+        raise AuthenticationError('digest received was wrong')
+
+def answer_challenge(connection, authkey):
+    import hmac
+    assert isinstance(authkey, bytes)
+    message = connection.recv_bytes(256)         # reject large message
+    assert message[:len(CHALLENGE)] == CHALLENGE, 'message = %r' % message
+    message = message[len(CHALLENGE):]
+    digest = hmac.new(authkey, message).digest()
+    connection.send_bytes(digest)
+    response = connection.recv_bytes(256)        # reject large message
+    if response != WELCOME:
+        raise AuthenticationError('digest sent was rejected')
+
+#
+# Support for using xmlrpclib for serialization
+#
+
+class ConnectionWrapper(object):
+    def __init__(self, conn, dumps, loads):
+        self._conn = conn
+        self._dumps = dumps
+        self._loads = loads
+        for attr in ('fileno', 'close', 'poll', 'recv_bytes', 'send_bytes'):
+            obj = getattr(conn, attr)
+            setattr(self, attr, obj)            
+    def send(self, obj):
+        s = self._dumps(obj)
+        self._conn.send_bytes(s)
+    def recv(self):
+        s = self._conn.recv_bytes()
+        return self._loads(s)
+
+def _xml_dumps(obj):
+    return xmlrpclib.dumps((obj,), None, None, None, 1).encode('utf8')
+
+def _xml_loads(s):
+    (obj,), method = xmlrpclib.loads(s.decode('utf8'))
+    return obj
+
+class XmlListener(Listener):
+    def accept(self):
+        global xmlrpclib
+        import xmlrpclib
+        obj = Listener.accept(self)
+        return ConnectionWrapper(obj, _xml_dumps, _xml_loads)
+
+def XmlClient(*args, **kwds):
+    global xmlrpclib
+    import xmlrpclib
+    return ConnectionWrapper(Client(*args, **kwds), _xml_dumps, _xml_loads)
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e35ccee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#
+# Support for the API of the multiprocessing package using threads
+#
+# multiprocessing/dummy/__init__.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = [
+    'Process', 'current_process', 'active_children', 'freeze_support',
+    'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'Condition',
+    'Event', 'Queue', 'Manager', 'Pipe', 'Pool', 'JoinableQueue'
+    ]
+
+#
+# Imports
+#
+
+import threading
+import sys
+import weakref
+import array
+import itertools
+
+from multiprocessing import TimeoutError, cpu_count
+from multiprocessing.dummy.connection import Pipe
+from threading import Lock, RLock, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore
+from threading import Event
+from Queue import Queue
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class DummyProcess(threading.Thread):
+
+    def __init__(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}):
+        threading.Thread.__init__(self, group, target, name, args, kwargs)
+        self._pid = None
+        self._children = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
+        self._start_called = False
+        self._parent = current_process()
+
+    def start(self):
+        assert self._parent is current_process()
+        self._start_called = True
+        self._parent._children[self] = None
+        threading.Thread.start(self)
+
+    def get_exitcode(self):
+        if self._start_called and not self.isAlive():
+            return 0
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    # XXX
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        is_alive = threading.Thread.isAlive.im_func
+        get_name = threading.Thread.getName.im_func
+        set_name = threading.Thread.setName.im_func
+        is_daemon = threading.Thread.isDaemon.im_func
+        set_daemon = threading.Thread.setDaemon.im_func
+    else:
+        is_alive = threading.Thread.isAlive
+        get_name = threading.Thread.getName
+        set_name = threading.Thread.setName
+        is_daemon = threading.Thread.isDaemon
+        set_daemon = threading.Thread.setDaemon
+
+#
+#
+#
+        
+class Condition(threading._Condition):
+    # XXX
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        notify_all = threading._Condition.notifyAll.im_func
+    else:
+        notify_all = threading._Condition.notifyAll
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+Process = DummyProcess
+current_process = threading.currentThread
+current_process()._children = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
+
+def active_children():
+    children = current_process()._children
+    for p in list(children):
+        if not p.isAlive():
+            children.pop(p, None)
+    return list(children)
+
+def freeze_support():
+    pass
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class Namespace(object):
+    def __init__(self, **kwds):
+        self.__dict__.update(kwds)
+    def __repr__(self):
+        items = self.__dict__.items()
+        temp = []
+        for name, value in items:
+            if not name.startswith('_'):
+                temp.append('%s=%r' % (name, value))
+        temp.sort()
+        return 'Namespace(%s)' % str.join(', ', temp)
+
+dict = dict
+list = list
+
+def Array(typecode, sequence, lock=True):
+    return array.array(typecode, sequence)
+
+class Value(object):
+    def __init__(self, typecode, value, lock=True):
+        self._typecode = typecode
+        self._value = value
+    def _get(self):
+        return self._value
+    def _set(self, value):
+        self._value = value
+    value = property(_get, _set)
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<%r(%r, %r)>'%(type(self).__name__,self._typecode,self._value)
+
+def Manager():
+    return sys.modules[__name__]
+
+def shutdown():
+    pass
+
+def Pool(processes=None, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+    from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
+    return ThreadPool(processes, initializer, initargs)
+
+JoinableQueue = Queue
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/connection.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd2bcb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/dummy/connection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#
+# Analogue of `multiprocessing.connection` which uses queues instead of sockets
+#
+# multiprocessing/dummy/connection.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = [ 'Client', 'Listener', 'Pipe' ]
+
+from Queue import Queue
+
+
+families = [None]
+
+
+class Listener(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, address=None, family=None, backlog=1):
+        self._backlog_queue = Queue(backlog)
+
+    def accept(self):
+        return Connection(*self._backlog_queue.get())
+
+    def close(self):
+        self._backlog_queue = None
+
+    address = property(lambda self: self._backlog_queue)
+
+
+def Client(address):
+    _in, _out = Queue(), Queue()
+    address.put((_out, _in))
+    return Connection(_in, _out)
+
+
+def Pipe(duplex=True):
+    a, b = Queue(), Queue()
+    return Connection(a, b), Connection(b, a)
+
+
+class Connection(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, _in, _out):
+        self._out = _out
+        self._in = _in
+        self.send = self.send_bytes = _out.put
+        self.recv = self.recv_bytes = _in.get
+
+    def poll(self, timeout=0.0):
+        if self._in.qsize() > 0:
+            return True
+        if timeout <= 0.0:
+            return False
+        self._in.not_empty.acquire()
+        self._in.not_empty.wait(timeout)
+        self._in.not_empty.release()
+        return self._in.qsize() > 0
+
+    def close(self):
+        pass
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c1d3cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
@@ -0,0 +1,429 @@
+#
+# Module for starting a process object using os.fork() or CreateProcess()
+#
+# multiprocessing/forking.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+import signal
+
+from multiprocessing import util, process
+
+__all__ = ['Popen', 'assert_spawning', 'exit', 'duplicate', 'close']
+
+#
+# Check that the current thread is spawning a child process
+#
+
+def assert_spawning(self):
+    if not Popen.thread_is_spawning():
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            '%s objects should only be shared between processes'
+            ' through inheritance' % type(self).__name__
+            )
+
+#
+# Unix
+#
+
+if sys.platform != 'win32':
+    import time
+
+    exit = os._exit
+    duplicate = os.dup
+    close = os.close
+
+    #
+    # We define a Popen class similar to the one from subprocess, but
+    # whose constructor takes a process object as its argument.
+    #
+
+    class Popen(object):
+
+        def __init__(self, process_obj):
+            sys.stdout.flush()
+            sys.stderr.flush()
+            self.returncode = None
+
+            self.pid = os.fork()
+            if self.pid == 0:
+                if 'random' in sys.modules:
+                    import random
+                    random.seed()
+                code = process_obj._bootstrap()
+                sys.stdout.flush()
+                sys.stderr.flush()
+                os._exit(code)
+
+        def poll(self, flag=os.WNOHANG):
+            if self.returncode is None:
+                pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, flag)
+                if pid == self.pid:
+                    if os.WIFSIGNALED(sts):
+                        self.returncode = -os.WTERMSIG(sts)
+                    else:
+                        assert os.WIFEXITED(sts)
+                        self.returncode = os.WEXITSTATUS(sts)
+            return self.returncode
+
+        def wait(self, timeout=None):
+            if timeout is None:
+                return self.poll(0)
+            deadline = time.time() + timeout
+            delay = 0.0005
+            while 1:
+                res = self.poll()
+                if res is not None:
+                    break
+                remaining = deadline - time.time()
+                if remaining <= 0:
+                    break
+                delay = min(delay * 2, remaining, 0.05)
+                time.sleep(delay)
+            return res
+
+        def terminate(self):
+            if self.returncode is None:
+                try:
+                    os.kill(self.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
+                except OSError, e:
+                    if self.wait(timeout=0.1) is None:
+                        raise
+                    
+        @staticmethod
+        def thread_is_spawning():
+            return False
+
+#
+# Windows
+#
+
+else:
+    import thread
+    import msvcrt
+    import _subprocess
+    import copy_reg
+    import time
+    
+    from ._multiprocessing import win32, Connection, PipeConnection
+    from .util import Finalize
+    
+    try:
+        from cPickle import dump, load, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL
+    except ImportError:
+        from pickle import dump, load, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL
+
+    #
+    #
+    #
+
+    TERMINATE = 0x10000
+    WINEXE = (sys.platform == 'win32' and getattr(sys, 'frozen', False))
+
+    exit = win32.ExitProcess
+    close = win32.CloseHandle
+
+    #
+    # _python_exe is the assumed path to the python executable.
+    # People embedding Python want to modify it.
+    #
+
+    if sys.executable.lower().endswith('pythonservice.exe'):
+        _python_exe = os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, 'python.exe')
+    else:
+        _python_exe = sys.executable
+
+    def set_executable(exe):
+        global _python_exe
+        _python_exe = exe
+
+    #
+    #
+    #
+
+    def duplicate(handle, target_process=None, inheritable=False):
+        if target_process is None:
+            target_process = _subprocess.GetCurrentProcess()
+        return _subprocess.DuplicateHandle(
+            _subprocess.GetCurrentProcess(), handle, target_process,
+            0, inheritable, _subprocess.DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS
+            ).Detach()
+
+    #
+    # We define a Popen class similar to the one from subprocess, but
+    # whose constructor takes a process object as its argument.
+    #
+
+    class Popen(object):
+        '''
+        Start a subprocess to run the code of a process object
+        '''
+        _tls = thread._local()
+
+        def __init__(self, process_obj):
+            # create pipe for communication with child
+            rfd, wfd = os.pipe()
+
+            # get handle for read end of the pipe and make it inheritable
+            rhandle = duplicate(msvcrt.get_osfhandle(rfd), inheritable=True)
+            os.close(rfd)
+
+            # start process
+            cmd = get_command_line() + [rhandle]
+            cmd = ' '.join('"%s"' % x for x in cmd)
+            hp, ht, pid, tid = _subprocess.CreateProcess(
+                _python_exe, cmd, None, None, 1, 0, None, None, None
+                )
+            ht.Close()
+            close(rhandle)
+
+            # set attributes of self
+            self.pid = pid
+            self.returncode = None
+            self._handle = hp
+
+            # send information to child
+            prep_data = get_preparation_data(process_obj._name)
+            to_child = os.fdopen(wfd, 'wb')
+            Popen._tls.process_handle = int(hp)
+            try:
+                dump(prep_data, to_child, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
+                dump(process_obj, to_child, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
+            finally:
+                del Popen._tls.process_handle
+                to_child.close()
+
+        @staticmethod
+        def thread_is_spawning():
+            return getattr(Popen._tls, 'process_handle', None) is not None
+
+        @staticmethod
+        def duplicate_for_child(handle):
+            return duplicate(handle, Popen._tls.process_handle)
+
+        def wait(self, timeout=None):
+            if self.returncode is None:
+                if timeout is None:
+                    msecs = _subprocess.INFINITE
+                else:
+                    msecs = max(0, int(timeout * 1000 + 0.5))
+
+                res = _subprocess.WaitForSingleObject(int(self._handle), msecs)
+                if res == _subprocess.WAIT_OBJECT_0:
+                    code = _subprocess.GetExitCodeProcess(self._handle)
+                    if code == TERMINATE:
+                        code = -signal.SIGTERM
+                    self.returncode = code
+                    
+            return self.returncode
+
+        def poll(self):
+            return self.wait(timeout=0)
+
+        def terminate(self):
+            if self.returncode is None:
+                try:
+                    _subprocess.TerminateProcess(int(self._handle), TERMINATE)
+                except WindowsError:
+                    if self.wait(timeout=0.1) is None:
+                        raise
+        
+    #
+    #
+    #
+
+    def is_forking(argv):
+        '''
+        Return whether commandline indicates we are forking
+        '''
+        if len(argv) >= 2 and argv[1] == '--multiprocessing-fork':
+            assert len(argv) == 3
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
+
+    def freeze_support():
+        '''
+        Run code for process object if this in not the main process
+        '''
+        if is_forking(sys.argv):
+            main()
+            sys.exit()
+
+
+    def get_command_line():
+        '''
+        Returns prefix of command line used for spawning a child process
+        '''
+        if process.current_process()._identity==() and is_forking(sys.argv):
+            raise RuntimeError('''
+            Attempt to start a new process before the current process
+            has finished its bootstrapping phase.
+
+            This probably means that you are on Windows and you have
+            forgotten to use the proper idiom in the main module:
+
+                if __name__ == '__main__':
+                    freeze_support()
+                    ...
+
+            The "freeze_support()" line can be omitted if the program
+            is not going to be frozen to produce a Windows executable.''')
+
+        if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
+            return [sys.executable, '--multiprocessing-fork']
+        else:
+            prog = 'from multiprocessing.forking import main; main()'
+            return [_python_exe, '-c', prog, '--multiprocessing-fork']
+
+
+    def main():
+        '''
+        Run code specifed by data received over pipe
+        '''
+        assert is_forking(sys.argv)
+
+        handle = int(sys.argv[-1])
+        fd = msvcrt.open_osfhandle(handle, os.O_RDONLY)
+        from_parent = os.fdopen(fd, 'rb')
+
+        process.current_process()._inheriting = True
+        preparation_data = load(from_parent)
+        prepare(preparation_data)
+        self = load(from_parent)
+        process.current_process()._inheriting = False
+
+        from_parent.close()
+
+        exitcode = self._bootstrap()
+        exit(exitcode)
+
+
+    def get_preparation_data(name):
+        '''
+        Return info about parent needed by child to unpickle process object
+        '''
+        from .util import _logger, _log_to_stderr
+        
+        d = dict(
+            name=name,
+            sys_path=sys.path,
+            sys_argv=sys.argv,
+            log_to_stderr=_log_to_stderr,
+            orig_dir=process.ORIGINAL_DIR,
+            authkey=process.current_process().get_authkey(),
+            )
+        
+        if _logger is not None:
+            d['log_level'] = _logger.getEffectiveLevel()
+
+        if not WINEXE:
+            main_path = getattr(sys.modules['__main__'], '__file__', None)
+            if not main_path and sys.argv[0] not in ('', '-c'):
+                main_path = sys.argv[0]
+            if main_path is not None:
+                if not os.path.isabs(main_path) and \
+                                          process.ORIGINAL_DIR is not None:
+                    main_path = os.path.join(process.ORIGINAL_DIR, main_path)
+                d['main_path'] = os.path.normpath(main_path)
+
+        return d
+
+    #
+    # Make (Pipe)Connection picklable
+    #
+    
+    def reduce_connection(conn):
+        if not Popen.thread_is_spawning():
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                'By default %s objects can only be shared between processes\n'
+                'using inheritance' % type(conn).__name__
+                )
+        return type(conn), (Popen.duplicate_for_child(conn.fileno()),
+                            conn.readable, conn.writable)
+    
+    copy_reg.pickle(Connection, reduce_connection)
+    copy_reg.pickle(PipeConnection, reduce_connection)
+
+
+#
+# Prepare current process
+#
+
+old_main_modules = []
+
+def prepare(data):
+    '''
+    Try to get current process ready to unpickle process object
+    '''
+    old_main_modules.append(sys.modules['__main__'])
+
+    if 'name' in data:
+        process.current_process().set_name(data['name'])
+
+    if 'authkey' in data:
+        process.current_process()._authkey = data['authkey']
+    
+    if 'log_to_stderr' in data and data['log_to_stderr']:
+        util.log_to_stderr()
+
+    if 'log_level' in data:
+        util.get_logger().setLevel(data['log_level'])
+
+    if 'sys_path' in data:
+        sys.path = data['sys_path']
+
+    if 'sys_argv' in data:
+        sys.argv = data['sys_argv']
+
+    if 'dir' in data:
+        os.chdir(data['dir'])
+
+    if 'orig_dir' in data:
+        process.ORIGINAL_DIR = data['orig_dir']
+
+    if 'main_path' in data:
+        main_path = data['main_path']
+        main_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(main_path))[0]
+        if main_name == '__init__':
+            main_name = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(main_path))
+
+        if main_name != 'ipython':
+            import imp
+
+            if main_path is None:
+                dirs = None
+            elif os.path.basename(main_path).startswith('__init__.py'):
+                dirs = [os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(main_path))]
+            else:
+                dirs = [os.path.dirname(main_path)]
+
+            assert main_name not in sys.modules, main_name
+            file, path_name, etc = imp.find_module(main_name, dirs)
+            try:
+                # We would like to do "imp.load_module('__main__', ...)"
+                # here.  However, that would cause 'if __name__ ==
+                # "__main__"' clauses to be executed.
+                main_module = imp.load_module(
+                    '__parents_main__', file, path_name, etc
+                    )
+            finally:
+                if file:
+                    file.close()
+
+            sys.modules['__main__'] = main_module
+            main_module.__name__ = '__main__'
+
+            # Try to make the potentially picklable objects in
+            # sys.modules['__main__'] realize they are in the main
+            # module -- somewhat ugly.
+            for obj in main_module.__dict__.values():
+                try:
+                    if obj.__module__ == '__parents_main__':
+                        obj.__module__ = '__main__'
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/heap.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/heap.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e596ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/heap.py
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+#
+# Module which supports allocation of memory from an mmap
+#
+# multiprocessing/heap.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+import bisect
+import mmap
+import tempfile
+import os
+import sys
+import threading
+import itertools
+
+import _multiprocessing
+from multiprocessing.util import Finalize, info
+from multiprocessing.forking import assert_spawning
+
+__all__ = ['BufferWrapper']
+
+#
+# Inheirtable class which wraps an mmap, and from which blocks can be allocated
+#
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+
+    from ._multiprocessing import win32
+
+    class Arena(object):
+
+        _counter = itertools.count()
+
+        def __init__(self, size):
+            self.size = size
+            self.name = 'pym-%d-%d' % (os.getpid(), Arena._counter.next())
+            self.buffer = mmap.mmap(-1, self.size, tagname=self.name)
+            assert win32.GetLastError() == 0, 'tagname already in use'
+            self._state = (self.size, self.name)
+
+        def __getstate__(self):
+            assert_spawning(self)
+            return self._state
+
+        def __setstate__(self, state):
+            self.size, self.name = self._state = state
+            self.buffer = mmap.mmap(-1, self.size, tagname=self.name)
+            assert win32.GetLastError() == win32.ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS
+
+else:
+
+    class Arena(object):
+
+        def __init__(self, size):
+            self.buffer = mmap.mmap(-1, size)
+            self.size = size
+            self.name = None
+
+#
+# Class allowing allocation of chunks of memory from arenas
+#
+
+class Heap(object):
+
+    _alignment = 8
+
+    def __init__(self, size=mmap.PAGESIZE):
+        self._lastpid = os.getpid()
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+        self._size = size
+        self._lengths = []
+        self._len_to_seq = {}
+        self._start_to_block = {}
+        self._stop_to_block = {}
+        self._allocated_blocks = set()
+        self._arenas = []
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _roundup(n, alignment):
+        # alignment must be a power of 2
+        mask = alignment - 1
+        return (n + mask) & ~mask
+
+    def _malloc(self, size):
+        # returns a large enough block -- it might be much larger
+        i = bisect.bisect_left(self._lengths, size)
+        if i == len(self._lengths):
+            length = self._roundup(max(self._size, size), mmap.PAGESIZE)
+            self._size *= 2
+            info('allocating a new mmap of length %d', length)
+            arena = Arena(length)
+            self._arenas.append(arena)
+            return (arena, 0, length)
+        else:
+            length = self._lengths[i]
+            seq = self._len_to_seq[length]
+            block = seq.pop()
+            if not seq:
+                del self._len_to_seq[length], self._lengths[i]
+
+        (arena, start, stop) = block
+        del self._start_to_block[(arena, start)]
+        del self._stop_to_block[(arena, stop)]
+        return block
+
+    def _free(self, block):
+        # free location and try to merge with neighbours
+        (arena, start, stop) = block
+
+        try:
+            prev_block = self._stop_to_block[(arena, start)]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            start, _ = self._absorb(prev_block)
+
+        try:
+            next_block = self._start_to_block[(arena, stop)]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            _, stop = self._absorb(next_block)
+
+        block = (arena, start, stop)
+        length = stop - start
+
+        try:
+            self._len_to_seq[length].append(block)
+        except KeyError:
+            self._len_to_seq[length] = [block]
+            bisect.insort(self._lengths, length)
+
+        self._start_to_block[(arena, start)] = block
+        self._stop_to_block[(arena, stop)] = block
+
+    def _absorb(self, block):
+        # deregister this block so it can be merged with a neighbour
+        (arena, start, stop) = block
+        del self._start_to_block[(arena, start)]
+        del self._stop_to_block[(arena, stop)]
+
+        length = stop - start
+        seq = self._len_to_seq[length]
+        seq.remove(block)
+        if not seq:
+            del self._len_to_seq[length]
+            self._lengths.remove(length)
+
+        return start, stop
+
+    def free(self, block):
+        # free a block returned by malloc()
+        assert os.getpid() == self._lastpid
+        self._lock.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._allocated_blocks.remove(block)
+            self._free(block)
+        finally:
+            self._lock.release()
+
+    def malloc(self, size):
+        # return a block of right size (possibly rounded up)
+        assert 0 <= size < sys.maxint
+        if os.getpid() != self._lastpid:
+            self.__init__()                     # reinitialize after fork
+        self._lock.acquire()
+        try:
+            size = self._roundup(max(size,1), self._alignment)
+            (arena, start, stop) = self._malloc(size)
+            new_stop = start + size
+            if new_stop < stop:
+                self._free((arena, new_stop, stop))
+            block = (arena, start, new_stop)
+            self._allocated_blocks.add(block)
+            return block
+        finally:
+            self._lock.release()
+
+#
+# Class representing a chunk of an mmap -- can be inherited
+#
+
+class BufferWrapper(object):
+
+    _heap = Heap()
+
+    def __init__(self, size):
+        assert 0 <= size < sys.maxint
+        block = BufferWrapper._heap.malloc(size)
+        self._state = (block, size)
+        Finalize(self, BufferWrapper._heap.free, args=(block,))
+
+    def get_address(self):
+        (arena, start, stop), size = self._state
+        address, length = _multiprocessing.address_of_buffer(arena.buffer)
+        assert size <= length
+        return address + start
+
+    def get_size(self):
+        return self._state[1]
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4af2107
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/managers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1092 @@
+#
+# Module providing the `SyncManager` class for dealing
+# with shared objects
+#
+# multiprocessing/managers.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = [ 'BaseManager', 'SyncManager', 'BaseProxy', 'Token' ]
+
+#
+# Imports
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+import weakref
+import threading
+import array
+import copy_reg
+import Queue
+
+from traceback import format_exc
+from multiprocessing import Process, current_process, active_children, Pool, util, connection
+from multiprocessing.process import AuthenticationString
+from multiprocessing.forking import exit, Popen, assert_spawning
+from multiprocessing.util import Finalize, info
+
+try:
+    from cPickle import PicklingError
+except ImportError:
+    from pickle import PicklingError
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+try:
+    bytes
+except NameError:
+    bytes = str                  # XXX not needed in Py2.6 and Py3.0
+    
+#
+# Register some things for pickling
+#
+
+def reduce_array(a):
+    return array.array, (a.typecode, a.tostring())
+copy_reg.pickle(array.array, reduce_array)
+
+view_types = [type(getattr({}, name)()) for name in ('items','keys','values')]
+if view_types[0] is not list:       # XXX only needed in Py3.0
+    def rebuild_as_list(obj):
+        return list, (list(obj),)
+    for view_type in view_types:
+        copy_reg.pickle(view_type, rebuild_as_list)
+    
+#
+# Type for identifying shared objects
+#
+
+class Token(object):
+    '''
+    Type to uniquely indentify a shared object
+    '''
+    __slots__ = ('typeid', 'address', 'id')
+
+    def __init__(self, typeid, address, id):
+        (self.typeid, self.address, self.id) = (typeid, address, id)
+
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        return (self.typeid, self.address, self.id)
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        (self.typeid, self.address, self.id) = state
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return 'Token(typeid=%r, address=%r, id=%r)' % \
+               (self.typeid, self.address, self.id)
+
+#
+# Function for communication with a manager's server process
+#
+
+def dispatch(c, id, methodname, args=(), kwds={}):
+    '''
+    Send a message to manager using connection `c` and return response
+    '''
+    c.send((id, methodname, args, kwds))
+    kind, result = c.recv()
+    if kind == '#RETURN':
+        return result
+    raise convert_to_error(kind, result)
+
+def convert_to_error(kind, result):
+    if kind == '#ERROR':
+        return result
+    elif kind == '#TRACEBACK':
+        assert type(result) is str
+        return  RemoteError(result)
+    elif kind == '#UNSERIALIZABLE':
+        assert type(result) is str
+        return RemoteError('Unserializable message: %s\n' % result)
+    else:
+        return ValueError('Unrecognized message type')
+        
+class RemoteError(Exception):
+    def __str__(self):
+        return ('\n' + '-'*75 + '\n' + str(self.args[0]) + '-'*75)
+
+#
+# Functions for finding the method names of an object
+#
+
+def all_methods(obj):
+    '''
+    Return a list of names of methods of `obj`
+    '''
+    temp = []
+    for name in dir(obj):
+        func = getattr(obj, name)
+        if hasattr(func, '__call__'):
+            temp.append(name)
+    return temp
+
+def public_methods(obj):
+    '''
+    Return a list of names of methods of `obj` which do not start with '_'
+    '''
+    return [name for name in all_methods(obj) if name[0] != '_']
+
+#
+# Server which is run in a process controlled by a manager
+#
+
+class Server(object):
+    '''
+    Server class which runs in a process controlled by a manager object
+    '''
+    public = ['shutdown', 'create', 'accept_connection', 'get_methods',
+              'debug_info', 'number_of_objects', 'dummy', 'incref', 'decref']
+
+    def __init__(self, registry, address, authkey, serializer):
+        assert isinstance(authkey, bytes)
+        self.registry = registry
+        self.authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey)
+        Listener, Client = listener_client[serializer]
+
+        # do authentication later
+        self.listener = Listener(address=address, backlog=5)
+        self.address = self.listener.address
+
+        self.id_to_obj = {0: (None, ())}
+        self.id_to_refcount = {}
+        self.mutex = threading.RLock()
+        self.stop = 0
+
+    def serve_forever(self):
+        '''
+        Run the server forever
+        '''
+        current_process()._manager_server = self
+        try:
+            try:
+                while 1:
+                    try:
+                        c = self.listener.accept()
+                    except (OSError, IOError):
+                        continue
+                    t = threading.Thread(target=self.handle_request, args=(c,))
+                    t.setDaemon(True)
+                    t.start()
+            except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
+                pass
+        finally:
+            self.stop = 999
+            self.listener.close()
+
+    def handle_request(self, c):
+        '''
+        Handle a new connection
+        '''
+        funcname = result = request = None
+        try:
+            connection.deliver_challenge(c, self.authkey)
+            connection.answer_challenge(c, self.authkey)
+            request = c.recv()
+            ignore, funcname, args, kwds = request
+            assert funcname in self.public, '%r unrecognized' % funcname
+            func = getattr(self, funcname)
+        except Exception:
+            msg = ('#TRACEBACK', format_exc())
+        else:
+            try:
+                result = func(c, *args, **kwds)
+            except Exception:
+                msg = ('#TRACEBACK', format_exc())
+            else:
+                msg = ('#RETURN', result)
+        try:
+            c.send(msg)
+        except Exception, e:
+            try:
+                c.send(('#TRACEBACK', format_exc()))
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            util.info('Failure to send message: %r', msg)
+            util.info(' ... request was %r', request)
+            util.info(' ... exception was %r', e)
+
+        c.close()
+
+    def serve_client(self, conn):
+        '''
+        Handle requests from the proxies in a particular process/thread
+        '''
+        util.debug('starting server thread to service %r',
+                   threading.currentThread().getName())
+
+        recv = conn.recv
+        send = conn.send
+        id_to_obj = self.id_to_obj
+
+        while not self.stop:
+
+            try:
+                methodname = obj = None
+                request = recv()
+                ident, methodname, args, kwds = request
+                obj, exposed, gettypeid = id_to_obj[ident]
+
+                if methodname not in exposed:
+                    raise AttributeError(
+                        'method %r of %r object is not in exposed=%r' %
+                        (methodname, type(obj), exposed)
+                        )
+
+                function = getattr(obj, methodname)
+
+                try:
+                    res = function(*args, **kwds)
+                except Exception, e:
+                    msg = ('#ERROR', e)
+                else:
+                    typeid = gettypeid and gettypeid.get(methodname, None)
+                    if typeid:
+                        rident, rexposed = self.create(conn, typeid, res)
+                        token = Token(typeid, self.address, rident)
+                        msg = ('#PROXY', (rexposed, token))
+                    else:
+                        msg = ('#RETURN', res)
+
+            except AttributeError:
+                if methodname is None:
+                    msg = ('#TRACEBACK', format_exc())
+                else:
+                    try:
+                        fallback_func = self.fallback_mapping[methodname]
+                        result = fallback_func(
+                            self, conn, ident, obj, *args, **kwds
+                            )
+                        msg = ('#RETURN', result)
+                    except Exception:
+                        msg = ('#TRACEBACK', format_exc())
+
+            except EOFError:
+                util.debug('got EOF -- exiting thread serving %r',
+                           threading.currentThread().getName())
+                sys.exit(0)
+
+            except Exception:
+                msg = ('#TRACEBACK', format_exc())
+
+            try:
+                try:
+                    send(msg)
+                except Exception, e:
+                    send(('#UNSERIALIZABLE', repr(msg)))
+            except Exception, e:
+                util.info('exception in thread serving %r',
+                        threading.currentThread().getName())
+                util.info(' ... message was %r', msg)
+                util.info(' ... exception was %r', e)
+                conn.close()
+                sys.exit(1)
+
+    def fallback_getvalue(self, conn, ident, obj):
+        return obj
+
+    def fallback_str(self, conn, ident, obj):
+        return str(obj)
+
+    def fallback_repr(self, conn, ident, obj):
+        return repr(obj)
+
+    fallback_mapping = {
+        '__str__':fallback_str,
+        '__repr__':fallback_repr,
+        '#GETVALUE':fallback_getvalue
+        }
+
+    def dummy(self, c):
+        pass
+
+    def debug_info(self, c):
+        '''
+        Return some info --- useful to spot problems with refcounting
+        '''
+        self.mutex.acquire()
+        try:
+            result = []
+            keys = self.id_to_obj.keys()
+            keys.sort()
+            for ident in keys:
+                if ident != 0:
+                    result.append('  %s:       refcount=%s\n    %s' %
+                                  (ident, self.id_to_refcount[ident],
+                                   str(self.id_to_obj[ident][0])[:75]))
+            return '\n'.join(result)
+        finally:
+            self.mutex.release()
+
+    def number_of_objects(self, c):
+        '''
+        Number of shared objects
+        '''
+        return len(self.id_to_obj) - 1      # don't count ident=0
+
+    def shutdown(self, c):
+        '''
+        Shutdown this process
+        '''
+        try:
+            try:
+                util.debug('manager received shutdown message')
+                c.send(('#RETURN', None))
+
+                if sys.stdout != sys.__stdout__:
+                    util.debug('resetting stdout, stderr')
+                    sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
+                    sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__
+                    
+                util._run_finalizers(0)
+
+                for p in active_children():
+                    util.debug('terminating a child process of manager')
+                    p.terminate()
+
+                for p in active_children():
+                    util.debug('terminating a child process of manager')
+                    p.join()
+
+                util._run_finalizers()
+                util.info('manager exiting with exitcode 0')
+            except:
+                import traceback
+                traceback.print_exc()
+        finally:
+            exit(0)
+            
+    def create(self, c, typeid, *args, **kwds):
+        '''
+        Create a new shared object and return its id
+        '''
+        self.mutex.acquire()
+        try:
+            callable, exposed, method_to_typeid, proxytype = \
+                      self.registry[typeid]
+            
+            if callable is None:
+                assert len(args) == 1 and not kwds
+                obj = args[0]
+            else:
+                obj = callable(*args, **kwds)
+
+            if exposed is None:
+                exposed = public_methods(obj)
+            if method_to_typeid is not None:
+                assert type(method_to_typeid) is dict
+                exposed = list(exposed) + list(method_to_typeid)
+
+            ident = '%x' % id(obj)  # convert to string because xmlrpclib
+                                    # only has 32 bit signed integers
+            util.debug('%r callable returned object with id %r', typeid, ident)
+
+            self.id_to_obj[ident] = (obj, set(exposed), method_to_typeid)
+            if ident not in self.id_to_refcount:
+                self.id_to_refcount[ident] = None
+            return ident, tuple(exposed)
+        finally:
+            self.mutex.release()
+
+    def get_methods(self, c, token):
+        '''
+        Return the methods of the shared object indicated by token
+        '''
+        return tuple(self.id_to_obj[token.id][1])
+
+    def accept_connection(self, c, name):
+        '''
+        Spawn a new thread to serve this connection
+        '''
+        threading.currentThread().setName(name)
+        c.send(('#RETURN', None))
+        self.serve_client(c)
+
+    def incref(self, c, ident):
+        self.mutex.acquire()
+        try:
+            try:
+                self.id_to_refcount[ident] += 1
+            except TypeError:
+                assert self.id_to_refcount[ident] is None
+                self.id_to_refcount[ident] = 1
+        finally:
+            self.mutex.release()
+
+    def decref(self, c, ident):
+        self.mutex.acquire()
+        try:
+            assert self.id_to_refcount[ident] >= 1
+            self.id_to_refcount[ident] -= 1
+            if self.id_to_refcount[ident] == 0:
+                del self.id_to_obj[ident], self.id_to_refcount[ident]
+                util.debug('disposing of obj with id %d', ident)
+        finally:
+            self.mutex.release()
+
+#
+# Class to represent state of a manager
+#
+
+class State(object):
+    __slots__ = ['value']
+    INITIAL = 0
+    STARTED = 1
+    SHUTDOWN = 2
+
+#
+# Mapping from serializer name to Listener and Client types
+#
+
+listener_client = {
+    'pickle' : (connection.Listener, connection.Client),
+    'xmlrpclib' : (connection.XmlListener, connection.XmlClient)
+    }
+
+#
+# Definition of BaseManager
+#
+
+class BaseManager(object):
+    '''
+    Base class for managers
+    '''
+    _registry = {}
+    _Server = Server
+    
+    def __init__(self, address=None, authkey=None, serializer='pickle'):
+        if authkey is None:
+            authkey = current_process().get_authkey()
+        self._address = address     # XXX not final address if eg ('', 0)
+        self._authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey)
+        self._state = State()
+        self._state.value = State.INITIAL
+        self._serializer = serializer
+        self._Listener, self._Client = listener_client[serializer]
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        return type(self).from_address, \
+               (self._address, self._authkey, self._serializer)
+
+    def get_server(self):
+        '''
+        Return server object with serve_forever() method and address attribute
+        '''
+        assert self._state.value == State.INITIAL
+        return Server(self._registry, self._address,
+                      self._authkey, self._serializer)
+
+    def connect(self):
+        '''
+        Connect manager object to the server process
+        '''
+        Listener, Client = listener_client[self._serializer]
+        conn = Client(self._address, authkey=self._authkey)
+        dispatch(conn, None, 'dummy')
+        self._state.value = State.STARTED
+        
+    def start(self):
+        '''
+        Spawn a server process for this manager object
+        '''
+        assert self._state.value == State.INITIAL
+
+        # pipe over which we will retrieve address of server
+        reader, writer = connection.Pipe(duplex=False)
+
+        # spawn process which runs a server
+        self._process = Process(
+            target=type(self)._run_server,
+            args=(self._registry, self._address, self._authkey,
+                  self._serializer, writer),
+            )
+        ident = ':'.join(str(i) for i in self._process._identity)
+        self._process.set_name(type(self).__name__  + '-' + ident)
+        self._process.start()
+
+        # get address of server
+        writer.close()
+        self._address = reader.recv()
+        reader.close()
+
+        # register a finalizer
+        self._state.value = State.STARTED
+        self.shutdown = util.Finalize(
+            self, type(self)._finalize_manager,
+            args=(self._process, self._address, self._authkey,
+                  self._state, self._Client),
+            exitpriority=0
+            )
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _run_server(cls, registry, address, authkey, serializer, writer):
+        '''
+        Create a server, report its address and run it
+        '''
+        # create server
+        server = cls._Server(registry, address, authkey, serializer)
+
+        # inform parent process of the server's address
+        writer.send(server.address)
+        writer.close()
+
+        # run the manager
+        util.info('manager serving at %r', server.address)
+        server.serve_forever()
+
+    def _create(self, typeid, *args, **kwds):
+        '''
+        Create a new shared object; return the token and exposed tuple
+        '''
+        assert self._state.value == State.STARTED, 'server not yet started'
+        conn = self._Client(self._address, authkey=self._authkey)
+        try:
+            id, exposed = dispatch(conn, None, 'create', (typeid,)+args, kwds)
+        finally:
+            conn.close()
+        return Token(typeid, self._address, id), exposed
+
+    def join(self, timeout=None):
+        '''
+        Join the manager process (if it has been spawned)
+        '''
+        self._process.join(timeout)
+
+    def _debug_info(self):
+        '''
+        Return some info about the servers shared objects and connections
+        '''
+        conn = self._Client(self._address, authkey=self._authkey)
+        try:
+            return dispatch(conn, None, 'debug_info')
+        finally:
+            conn.close()
+
+    def _number_of_objects(self):
+        '''
+        Return the number of shared objects
+        '''
+        conn = self._Client(self._address, authkey=self._authkey)
+        try:        
+            return dispatch(conn, None, 'number_of_objects')
+        finally:
+            conn.close()        
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
+        self.shutdown()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _finalize_manager(process, address, authkey, state, _Client):
+        '''
+        Shutdown the manager process; will be registered as a finalizer
+        '''
+        if process.is_alive():
+            util.info('sending shutdown message to manager')
+            try:
+                conn = _Client(address, authkey=authkey)
+                try:
+                    dispatch(conn, None, 'shutdown')
+                finally:
+                    conn.close()
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+
+            process.join(timeout=0.2)
+            if process.is_alive():
+                util.info('manager still alive')
+                if hasattr(process, 'terminate'):
+                    util.info('trying to `terminate()` manager process')
+                    process.terminate()
+                    process.join(timeout=0.1)
+                    if process.is_alive():
+                        util.info('manager still alive after terminate')
+
+        state.value = State.SHUTDOWN
+        try:
+            del BaseProxy._address_to_local[address]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+        
+    address = property(lambda self: self._address)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def register(cls, typeid, callable=None, proxytype=None, exposed=None,
+                 method_to_typeid=None, create_method=True):
+        '''
+        Register a typeid with the manager type
+        '''
+        if '_registry' not in cls.__dict__:
+            cls._registry = cls._registry.copy()
+
+        if proxytype is None:
+            proxytype = AutoProxy
+
+        exposed = exposed or getattr(proxytype, '_exposed_', None)
+
+        method_to_typeid = method_to_typeid or \
+                           getattr(proxytype, '_method_to_typeid_', None)
+
+        if method_to_typeid:
+            for key, value in method_to_typeid.items():
+                assert type(key) is str, '%r is not a string' % key
+                assert type(value) is str, '%r is not a string' % value
+
+        cls._registry[typeid] = (
+            callable, exposed, method_to_typeid, proxytype
+            )
+        
+        if create_method:
+            def temp(self, *args, **kwds):
+                util.debug('requesting creation of a shared %r object', typeid)
+                token, exp = self._create(typeid, *args, **kwds)
+                proxy = proxytype(
+                    token, self._serializer, manager=self,
+                    authkey=self._authkey, exposed=exp
+                    )
+                return proxy
+            temp.__name__ = typeid
+            setattr(cls, typeid, temp)
+
+#
+# Subclass of set which get cleared after a fork
+#
+
+class ProcessLocalSet(set):
+    def __init__(self):
+        util.register_after_fork(self, lambda obj: obj.clear())
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        return type(self), ()
+
+#
+# Definition of BaseProxy
+#
+
+class BaseProxy(object):
+    '''
+    A base for proxies of shared objects
+    '''
+    _address_to_local = {}
+    _mutex = util.ForkAwareThreadLock()
+
+    def __init__(self, token, serializer, manager=None,
+                 authkey=None, exposed=None, incref=True):
+        BaseProxy._mutex.acquire()
+        try:
+            tls_idset = BaseProxy._address_to_local.get(token.address, None)
+            if tls_idset is None:
+                tls_idset = util.ForkAwareLocal(), ProcessLocalSet()
+                BaseProxy._address_to_local[token.address] = tls_idset
+        finally:
+            BaseProxy._mutex.release()
+
+        # self._tls is used to record the connection used by this
+        # thread to communicate with the manager at token.address
+        self._tls = tls_idset[0]
+
+        # self._idset is used to record the identities of all shared
+        # objects for which the current process owns references and
+        # which are in the manager at token.address
+        self._idset = tls_idset[1]
+
+        self._token = token
+        self._id = self._token.id
+        self._manager = manager
+        self._serializer = serializer
+        self._Client = listener_client[serializer][1]
+
+        if authkey is not None:
+            self._authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey)
+        elif self._manager is not None:
+            self._authkey = self._manager._authkey
+        else:
+            self._authkey = current_process().get_authkey()
+
+        if incref:
+            self._incref()
+            
+        util.register_after_fork(self, BaseProxy._after_fork)
+        
+    def _connect(self):
+        util.debug('making connection to manager')
+        name = current_process().get_name()
+        if threading.currentThread().getName() != 'MainThread':
+            name += '|' + threading.currentThread().getName()
+        conn = self._Client(self._token.address, authkey=self._authkey)
+        dispatch(conn, None, 'accept_connection', (name,))
+        self._tls.connection = conn
+        
+    def _callmethod(self, methodname, args=(), kwds={}):
+        '''
+        Try to call a method of the referrent and return a copy of the result
+        '''
+        try:
+            conn = self._tls.connection
+        except AttributeError:
+            util.debug('thread %r does not own a connection',
+                       threading.currentThread().getName())
+            self._connect()
+            conn = self._tls.connection
+
+        conn.send((self._id, methodname, args, kwds))
+        kind, result = conn.recv()
+        
+        if kind == '#RETURN':
+            return result
+        elif kind == '#PROXY':
+            exposed, token = result
+            proxytype = self._manager._registry[token.typeid][-1]
+            return proxytype(
+                token, self._serializer, manager=self._manager,
+                authkey=self._authkey, exposed=exposed
+                )
+        raise convert_to_error(kind, result)
+
+    def _getvalue(self):
+        '''
+        Get a copy of the value of the referent
+        '''
+        return self._callmethod('#GETVALUE')
+
+    def _incref(self):
+        conn = self._Client(self._token.address, authkey=self._authkey)
+        dispatch(conn, None, 'incref', (self._id,))
+        util.debug('INCREF %r', self._token.id)
+
+        self._idset.add(self._id)
+
+        state = self._manager and self._manager._state
+
+        self._close = util.Finalize(
+            self, BaseProxy._decref,
+            args=(self._token, self._authkey, state,
+                  self._tls, self._idset, self._Client),
+            exitpriority=10
+            )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _decref(token, authkey, state, tls, idset, _Client):
+        idset.discard(token.id)
+
+        # check whether manager is still alive
+        if state is None or state.value == State.STARTED:
+            # tell manager this process no longer cares about referent
+            try:
+                util.debug('DECREF %r', token.id)
+                conn = _Client(token.address, authkey=authkey)
+                dispatch(conn, None, 'decref', (token.id,))
+            except Exception, e:
+                util.debug('... decref failed %s', e)
+
+        else:
+            util.debug('DECREF %r -- manager already shutdown', token.id)
+
+        # check whether we can close this thread's connection because
+        # the process owns no more references to objects for this manager
+        if not idset and hasattr(tls, 'connection'):
+            util.debug('thread %r has no more proxies so closing conn',
+                       threading.currentThread().getName())
+            tls.connection.close()
+            del tls.connection
+            
+    def _after_fork(self):
+        self._manager = None
+        try:
+            self._incref()
+        except Exception, e:
+            # the proxy may just be for a manager which has shutdown
+            util.info('incref failed: %s' % e)
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        kwds = {}
+        if Popen.thread_is_spawning():
+            kwds['authkey'] = self._authkey
+        
+        if getattr(self, '_isauto', False):
+            kwds['exposed'] = self._exposed_
+            return (RebuildProxy,
+                    (AutoProxy, self._token, self._serializer, kwds))
+        else:
+            return (RebuildProxy,
+                    (type(self), self._token, self._serializer, kwds))
+
+    def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
+        return self._getvalue()
+    
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<%s object, typeid %r at %s>' % \
+               (type(self).__name__, self._token.typeid, '0x%x' % id(self))
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        '''
+        Return representation of the referent (or a fall-back if that fails)
+        '''
+        try:
+            return self._callmethod('__repr__')
+        except Exception:
+            return repr(self)[:-1] + "; '__str__()' failed>"
+
+#
+# Function used for unpickling
+#
+
+def RebuildProxy(func, token, serializer, kwds):
+    '''
+    Function used for unpickling proxy objects.
+
+    If possible the shared object is returned, or otherwise a proxy for it.
+    '''
+    server = getattr(current_process(), '_manager_server', None)
+    
+    if server and server.address == token.address:
+        return server.id_to_obj[token.id][0]
+    else:
+        incref = (
+            kwds.pop('incref', True) and
+            not getattr(current_process(), '_inheriting', False)
+            )
+        return func(token, serializer, incref=incref, **kwds)
+
+#
+# Functions to create proxies and proxy types
+#
+
+def MakeProxyType(name, exposed, _cache={}):
+    '''
+    Return an proxy type whose methods are given by `exposed`
+    '''
+    exposed = tuple(exposed)
+    try:
+        return _cache[(name, exposed)]
+    except KeyError:
+        pass
+
+    dic = {}
+
+    for meth in exposed:
+        exec '''def %s(self, *args, **kwds):
+        return self._callmethod(%r, args, kwds)''' % (meth, meth) in dic
+
+    ProxyType = type(name, (BaseProxy,), dic)
+    ProxyType._exposed_ = exposed
+    _cache[(name, exposed)] = ProxyType
+    return ProxyType
+
+
+def AutoProxy(token, serializer, manager=None, authkey=None,
+              exposed=None, incref=True):
+    '''
+    Return an auto-proxy for `token`
+    '''
+    _Client = listener_client[serializer][1]
+    
+    if exposed is None:
+        conn = _Client(token.address, authkey=authkey)
+        try:
+            exposed = dispatch(conn, None, 'get_methods', (token,))
+        finally:
+            conn.close()
+
+    if authkey is None and manager is not None:
+        authkey = manager._authkey
+    if authkey is None:
+        authkey = current_process().get_authkey()
+
+    ProxyType = MakeProxyType('AutoProxy[%s]' % token.typeid, exposed)
+    proxy = ProxyType(token, serializer, manager=manager, authkey=authkey,
+                      incref=incref)
+    proxy._isauto = True
+    return proxy
+
+#
+# Types/callables which we will register with SyncManager
+#
+
+class Namespace(object):
+    def __init__(self, **kwds):
+        self.__dict__.update(kwds)
+    def __repr__(self):
+        items = self.__dict__.items()
+        temp = []
+        for name, value in items:
+            if not name.startswith('_'):
+                temp.append('%s=%r' % (name, value))
+        temp.sort()
+        return 'Namespace(%s)' % str.join(', ', temp)
+
+class Value(object):
+    def __init__(self, typecode, value, lock=True):
+        self._typecode = typecode
+        self._value = value
+    def get(self):
+        return self._value
+    def set(self, value):
+        self._value = value
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '%s(%r, %r)'%(type(self).__name__, self._typecode, self._value)
+    value = property(get, set)
+
+def Array(typecode, sequence, lock=True):
+    return array.array(typecode, sequence)
+
+#
+# Proxy types used by SyncManager
+#
+
+class IteratorProxy(BaseProxy):
+    # XXX remove methods for Py3.0 and Py2.6
+    _exposed_ = ('__next__', 'next', 'send', 'throw', 'close')
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    def __next__(self, *args):
+        return self._callmethod('__next__', args)
+    def next(self, *args):
+        return self._callmethod('next', args)
+    def send(self, *args):
+        return self._callmethod('send', args)
+    def throw(self, *args):
+        return self._callmethod('throw', args)
+    def close(self, *args):
+        return self._callmethod('close', args)
+
+
+class AcquirerProxy(BaseProxy):
+    _exposed_ = ('acquire', 'release')
+    def acquire(self, blocking=True):
+        return self._callmethod('acquire', (blocking,))
+    def release(self):
+        return self._callmethod('release')
+    def __enter__(self):
+        return self._callmethod('acquire')
+    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
+        return self._callmethod('release')
+
+
+class ConditionProxy(AcquirerProxy):
+    # XXX will Condition.notfyAll() name be available in Py3.0?
+    _exposed_ = ('acquire', 'release', 'wait', 'notify', 'notifyAll')
+    def wait(self, timeout=None):
+        return self._callmethod('wait', (timeout,))
+    def notify(self):
+        return self._callmethod('notify')
+    def notify_all(self):
+        return self._callmethod('notifyAll')
+
+class EventProxy(BaseProxy):
+    # XXX will Event.isSet name be available in Py3.0?
+    _exposed_ = ('isSet', 'set', 'clear', 'wait')
+    def is_set(self):
+        return self._callmethod('isSet')
+    def set(self):
+        return self._callmethod('set')
+    def clear(self):
+        return self._callmethod('clear')
+    def wait(self, timeout=None):
+        return self._callmethod('wait', (timeout,))
+
+class NamespaceProxy(BaseProxy):
+    _exposed_ = ('__getattribute__', '__setattr__', '__delattr__')
+    def __getattr__(self, key):
+        if key[0] == '_':
+            return object.__getattribute__(self, key)
+        callmethod = object.__getattribute__(self, '_callmethod')
+        return callmethod('__getattribute__', (key,))    
+    def __setattr__(self, key, value):
+        if key[0] == '_':
+            return object.__setattr__(self, key, value)
+        callmethod = object.__getattribute__(self, '_callmethod')
+        return callmethod('__setattr__', (key, value))
+    def __delattr__(self, key):
+        if key[0] == '_':
+            return object.__delattr__(self, key)
+        callmethod = object.__getattribute__(self, '_callmethod')
+        return callmethod('__delattr__', (key,))
+
+    
+class ValueProxy(BaseProxy):
+    _exposed_ = ('get', 'set')
+    def get(self):
+        return self._callmethod('get')
+    def set(self, value):
+        return self._callmethod('set', (value,))
+    value = property(get, set)
+
+
+BaseListProxy = MakeProxyType('BaseListProxy', (
+    '__add__', '__contains__', '__delitem__', '__delslice__',
+    '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__len__', '__mul__',
+    '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__',
+    'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove',
+    'reverse', 'sort', '__imul__'
+    ))                  # XXX __getslice__ and __setslice__ unneeded in Py3.0
+class ListProxy(BaseListProxy):
+    def __iadd__(self, value):
+        self._callmethod('extend', (value,))
+        return self
+    def __imul__(self, value):
+        self._callmethod('__imul__', (value,))
+        return self
+
+
+DictProxy = MakeProxyType('DictProxy', (
+    '__contains__', '__delitem__', '__getitem__', '__len__',
+    '__setitem__', 'clear', 'copy', 'get', 'has_key', 'items',
+    'keys', 'pop', 'popitem', 'setdefault', 'update', 'values'
+    ))
+
+
+ArrayProxy = MakeProxyType('ArrayProxy', (
+    '__len__', '__getitem__', '__setitem__', '__getslice__', '__setslice__'
+    ))                  # XXX __getslice__ and __setslice__ unneeded in Py3.0
+
+
+PoolProxy = MakeProxyType('PoolProxy', (
+    'apply', 'apply_async', 'close', 'imap', 'imap_unordered', 'join',
+    'map', 'map_async', 'terminate'
+    ))
+PoolProxy._method_to_typeid_ = {
+    'apply_async': 'AsyncResult',
+    'map_async': 'AsyncResult',
+    'imap': 'Iterator',
+    'imap_unordered': 'Iterator'
+    }
+
+#
+# Definition of SyncManager
+#
+
+class SyncManager(BaseManager):
+    '''
+    Subclass of `BaseManager` which supports a number of shared object types.
+    
+    The types registered are those intended for the synchronization
+    of threads, plus `dict`, `list` and `Namespace`.
+    
+    The `multiprocessing.Manager()` function creates started instances of
+    this class.
+    '''
+
+SyncManager.register('Queue', Queue.Queue)
+SyncManager.register('JoinableQueue', Queue.Queue)
+SyncManager.register('Event', threading.Event, EventProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Lock', threading.Lock, AcquirerProxy)
+SyncManager.register('RLock', threading.RLock, AcquirerProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Semaphore', threading.Semaphore, AcquirerProxy)
+SyncManager.register('BoundedSemaphore', threading.BoundedSemaphore,
+                     AcquirerProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Condition', threading.Condition, ConditionProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Pool', Pool, PoolProxy)
+SyncManager.register('list', list, ListProxy)
+SyncManager.register('dict', dict, DictProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Value', Value, ValueProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Array', Array, ArrayProxy)
+SyncManager.register('Namespace', Namespace, NamespaceProxy)
+
+# types returned by methods of PoolProxy
+SyncManager.register('Iterator', proxytype=IteratorProxy, create_method=False)
+SyncManager.register('AsyncResult', create_method=False)
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b455893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
@@ -0,0 +1,596 @@
+#
+# Module providing the `Pool` class for managing a process pool
+#
+# multiprocessing/pool.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = ['Pool']
+
+#
+# Imports
+#
+
+import threading
+import Queue
+import itertools
+import collections
+import time
+
+from multiprocessing import Process, cpu_count, TimeoutError
+from multiprocessing.util import Finalize, debug
+
+#
+# Constants representing the state of a pool
+#
+
+RUN = 0
+CLOSE = 1
+TERMINATE = 2
+
+#
+# Miscellaneous
+#
+
+job_counter = itertools.count()
+
+def mapstar(args):
+    return map(*args)
+
+#
+# Code run by worker processes
+#
+
+def worker(inqueue, outqueue, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+    put = outqueue.put
+    get = inqueue.get
+    if hasattr(inqueue, '_writer'):
+        inqueue._writer.close()
+        outqueue._reader.close()
+
+    if initializer is not None:
+        initializer(*initargs)
+
+    while 1:
+        try:
+            task = get()
+        except (EOFError, IOError):
+            debug('worker got EOFError or IOError -- exiting')
+            break
+        
+        if task is None:
+            debug('worker got sentinel -- exiting')
+            break
+            
+        job, i, func, args, kwds = task
+        try:
+            result = (True, func(*args, **kwds))
+        except Exception, e:
+            result = (False, e)
+        put((job, i, result))
+    
+#
+# Class representing a process pool
+#
+
+class Pool(object):
+    '''
+    Class which supports an async version of the `apply()` builtin
+    '''
+    Process = Process
+
+    def __init__(self, processes=None, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+        self._setup_queues()
+        self._taskqueue = Queue.Queue()
+        self._cache = {}
+        self._state = RUN
+
+        if processes is None:
+            try:
+                processes = cpu_count()
+            except NotImplementedError:
+                processes = 1
+            
+        self._pool = []
+        for i in range(processes):
+            w = self.Process(
+                target=worker,
+                args=(self._inqueue, self._outqueue, initializer, initargs)
+                )
+            self._pool.append(w)
+            w.set_name(w.get_name().replace('Process', 'PoolWorker'))
+            w.set_daemon(True)
+            w.start()
+            
+        self._task_handler = threading.Thread(
+            target=Pool._handle_tasks,
+            args=(self._taskqueue, self._quick_put, self._outqueue, self._pool)
+            )
+        self._task_handler.setDaemon(True)
+        self._task_handler._state = RUN
+        self._task_handler.start()
+
+        self._result_handler = threading.Thread(
+            target=Pool._handle_results,
+            args=(self._outqueue, self._quick_get, self._cache)
+            )
+        self._result_handler.setDaemon(True)
+        self._result_handler._state = RUN
+        self._result_handler.start()
+
+        self._terminate = Finalize(
+            self, self._terminate_pool,
+            args=(self._taskqueue, self._inqueue, self._outqueue, self._pool,
+                  self._task_handler, self._result_handler, self._cache),
+            exitpriority=15
+            )
+
+    def _setup_queues(self):
+        from .queues import SimpleQueue
+        self._inqueue = SimpleQueue()
+        self._outqueue = SimpleQueue()
+        self._quick_put = self._inqueue._writer.send
+        self._quick_get = self._outqueue._reader.recv
+        
+    def apply(self, func, args=(), kwds={}):
+        '''
+        Equivalent of `apply()` builtin
+        '''
+        assert self._state == RUN
+        return self.apply_async(func, args, kwds).get()
+
+    def map(self, func, iterable, chunksize=None):
+        '''
+        Equivalent of `map()` builtin
+        '''
+        assert self._state == RUN
+        return self.map_async(func, iterable, chunksize).get()
+
+    def imap(self, func, iterable, chunksize=1):
+        '''
+        Equivalent of `itertool.imap()` -- can be MUCH slower than `Pool.map()`
+        '''
+        assert self._state == RUN
+        if chunksize == 1:
+            result = IMapIterator(self._cache)
+            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, func, (x,), {})
+                         for i, x in enumerate(iterable)), result._set_length))
+            return result
+        else:
+            assert chunksize > 1
+            task_batches = Pool._get_tasks(func, iterable, chunksize)
+            result = IMapIterator(self._cache)
+            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, mapstar, (x,), {})
+                     for i, x in enumerate(task_batches)), result._set_length))
+            return (item for chunk in result for item in chunk)
+
+    def imap_unordered(self, func, iterable, chunksize=1):
+        '''
+        Like `imap()` method but ordering of results is arbitrary
+        '''
+        assert self._state == RUN
+        if chunksize == 1:
+            result = IMapUnorderedIterator(self._cache)
+            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, func, (x,), {})
+                         for i, x in enumerate(iterable)), result._set_length))
+            return result
+        else:
+            assert chunksize > 1
+            task_batches = Pool._get_tasks(func, iterable, chunksize)
+            result = IMapUnorderedIterator(self._cache)
+            self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, mapstar, (x,), {})
+                     for i, x in enumerate(task_batches)), result._set_length))
+            return (item for chunk in result for item in chunk)
+            
+    def apply_async(self, func, args=(), kwds={}, callback=None):
+        '''
+        Asynchronous equivalent of `apply()` builtin
+        '''
+        assert self._state == RUN
+        result = ApplyResult(self._cache, callback)
+        self._taskqueue.put(([(result._job, None, func, args, kwds)], None))
+        return result
+
+    def map_async(self, func, iterable, chunksize=None, callback=None):
+        '''
+        Asynchronous equivalent of `map()` builtin
+        '''
+        assert self._state == RUN
+        if not hasattr(iterable, '__len__'):
+            iterable = list(iterable)
+        
+        if chunksize is None:
+            chunksize, extra = divmod(len(iterable), len(self._pool) * 4)
+            if extra:
+                chunksize += 1
+                
+        task_batches = Pool._get_tasks(func, iterable, chunksize)
+        result = MapResult(self._cache, chunksize, len(iterable), callback)
+        self._taskqueue.put((((result._job, i, mapstar, (x,), {})
+                              for i, x in enumerate(task_batches)), None))
+        return result
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _handle_tasks(taskqueue, put, outqueue, pool):
+        thread = threading.currentThread()
+
+        for taskseq, set_length in iter(taskqueue.get, None):
+            i = -1
+            for i, task in enumerate(taskseq):
+                if thread._state:
+                    debug('task handler found thread._state != RUN')
+                    break
+                try:
+                    put(task)
+                except IOError:
+                    debug('could not put task on queue')
+                    break
+            else:
+                if set_length:
+                    debug('doing set_length()')
+                    set_length(i+1)
+                continue
+            break
+        else:
+            debug('task handler got sentinel')
+            
+
+        try:
+            # tell result handler to finish when cache is empty
+            debug('task handler sending sentinel to result handler')
+            outqueue.put(None)
+            
+            # tell workers there is no more work
+            debug('task handler sending sentinel to workers')
+            for p in pool:
+                put(None)
+        except IOError:
+            debug('task handler got IOError when sending sentinels')
+
+        debug('task handler exiting')
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _handle_results(outqueue, get, cache):
+        thread = threading.currentThread()
+
+        while 1:
+            try:
+                task = get()
+            except (IOError, EOFError):
+                debug('result handler got EOFError/IOError -- exiting')
+                return
+            
+            if thread._state:
+                assert thread._state == TERMINATE
+                debug('result handler found thread._state=TERMINATE')
+                break
+            
+            if task is None:
+                debug('result handler got sentinel')
+                break
+
+            job, i, obj = task
+            try:
+                cache[job]._set(i, obj)
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
+
+        while cache and thread._state != TERMINATE:
+            try:
+                task = get()
+            except (IOError, EOFError):
+                debug('result handler got EOFError/IOError -- exiting')
+                return
+
+            if task is None:
+                debug('result handler ignoring extra sentinel')
+                continue
+            job, i, obj = task
+            try:
+                cache[job]._set(i, obj)
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
+
+        if hasattr(outqueue, '_reader'):
+            debug('ensuring that outqueue is not full')
+            # If we don't make room available in outqueue then
+            # attempts to add the sentinel (None) to outqueue may
+            # block.  There is guaranteed to be no more than 2 sentinels.
+            try:
+                for i in range(10):
+                    if not outqueue._reader.poll():
+                        break
+                    get()
+            except (IOError, EOFError):
+                pass
+
+        debug('result handler exiting: len(cache)=%s, thread._state=%s',
+              len(cache), thread._state)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_tasks(func, it, size):
+        it = iter(it)
+        while 1:
+            x = tuple(itertools.islice(it, size))
+            if not x:
+                return
+            yield (func, x)
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+              'pool objects cannot be passed between processes or pickled'
+              )
+    
+    def close(self):
+        debug('closing pool')
+        if self._state == RUN:
+            self._state = CLOSE
+            self._taskqueue.put(None)
+
+    def terminate(self):
+        debug('terminating pool')
+        self._state = TERMINATE
+        self._terminate()
+
+    def join(self):
+        debug('joining pool')
+        assert self._state in (CLOSE, TERMINATE)
+        self._task_handler.join()
+        self._result_handler.join()
+        for p in self._pool:
+            p.join()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _help_stuff_finish(inqueue, task_handler, size):
+        # task_handler may be blocked trying to put items on inqueue
+        debug('removing tasks from inqueue until task handler finished')
+        inqueue._rlock.acquire()
+        while task_handler.isAlive() and inqueue._reader.poll():
+            inqueue._reader.recv()
+            time.sleep(0)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _terminate_pool(cls, taskqueue, inqueue, outqueue, pool,
+                        task_handler, result_handler, cache):
+        # this is guaranteed to only be called once
+        debug('finalizing pool')
+        
+        task_handler._state = TERMINATE
+        taskqueue.put(None)                 # sentinel
+
+        debug('helping task handler/workers to finish')
+        cls._help_stuff_finish(inqueue, task_handler, len(pool))
+
+        assert result_handler.isAlive() or len(cache) == 0
+        
+        result_handler._state = TERMINATE
+        outqueue.put(None)                  # sentinel
+
+        if pool and hasattr(pool[0], 'terminate'):
+            debug('terminating workers')
+            for p in pool:
+                p.terminate()
+
+        debug('joining task handler')
+        task_handler.join(1e100)
+
+        debug('joining result handler')
+        result_handler.join(1e100)
+
+        if pool and hasattr(pool[0], 'terminate'):
+            debug('joining pool workers')
+            for p in pool:
+                p.join()
+
+#
+# Class whose instances are returned by `Pool.apply_async()`
+#
+
+class ApplyResult(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, cache, callback):
+        self._cond = threading.Condition(threading.Lock())
+        self._job = job_counter.next()
+        self._cache = cache
+        self._ready = False
+        self._callback = callback
+        cache[self._job] = self
+        
+    def ready(self):
+        return self._ready
+    
+    def successful(self):
+        assert self._ready
+        return self._success
+    
+    def wait(self, timeout=None):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            if not self._ready:
+                self._cond.wait(timeout)
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+    def get(self, timeout=None):
+        self.wait(timeout)
+        if not self._ready:
+            raise TimeoutError
+        if self._success:
+            return self._value
+        else:
+            raise self._value
+
+    def _set(self, i, obj):
+        self._success, self._value = obj
+        if self._callback and self._success:
+            self._callback(self._value)
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._ready = True
+            self._cond.notify()
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+        del self._cache[self._job]
+
+#
+# Class whose instances are returned by `Pool.map_async()`
+#
+
+class MapResult(ApplyResult):
+    
+    def __init__(self, cache, chunksize, length, callback):
+        ApplyResult.__init__(self, cache, callback)
+        self._success = True
+        self._value = [None] * length
+        self._chunksize = chunksize
+        if chunksize <= 0:
+            self._number_left = 0
+            self._ready = True
+        else:
+            self._number_left = length//chunksize + bool(length % chunksize)
+        
+    def _set(self, i, success_result):
+        success, result = success_result
+        if success:
+            self._value[i*self._chunksize:(i+1)*self._chunksize] = result
+            self._number_left -= 1
+            if self._number_left == 0:
+                if self._callback:
+                    self._callback(self._value)
+                del self._cache[self._job]
+                self._cond.acquire()
+                try:
+                    self._ready = True
+                    self._cond.notify()
+                finally:
+                    self._cond.release()
+
+        else:
+            self._success = False
+            self._value = result
+            del self._cache[self._job]
+            self._cond.acquire()
+            try:
+                self._ready = True
+                self._cond.notify()
+            finally:
+                self._cond.release()
+
+#
+# Class whose instances are returned by `Pool.imap()`
+#
+
+class IMapIterator(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, cache):
+        self._cond = threading.Condition(threading.Lock())
+        self._job = job_counter.next()
+        self._cache = cache
+        self._items = collections.deque()
+        self._index = 0
+        self._length = None
+        self._unsorted = {}
+        cache[self._job] = self
+        
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    
+    def next(self, timeout=None):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            try:
+                item = self._items.popleft()
+            except IndexError:
+                if self._index == self._length:
+                    raise StopIteration
+                self._cond.wait(timeout)
+                try:
+                    item = self._items.popleft()
+                except IndexError:
+                    if self._index == self._length:
+                        raise StopIteration
+                    raise TimeoutError
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+        success, value = item
+        if success:
+            return value
+        raise value
+
+    __next__ = next                    # XXX
+    
+    def _set(self, i, obj):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            if self._index == i:
+                self._items.append(obj)
+                self._index += 1
+                while self._index in self._unsorted:
+                    obj = self._unsorted.pop(self._index)
+                    self._items.append(obj)
+                    self._index += 1
+                self._cond.notify()
+            else:
+                self._unsorted[i] = obj
+                
+            if self._index == self._length:
+                del self._cache[self._job]
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+            
+    def _set_length(self, length):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._length = length
+            if self._index == self._length:
+                self._cond.notify()
+                del self._cache[self._job]
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+#
+# Class whose instances are returned by `Pool.imap_unordered()`
+#
+
+class IMapUnorderedIterator(IMapIterator):
+
+    def _set(self, i, obj):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._items.append(obj)
+            self._index += 1
+            self._cond.notify()
+            if self._index == self._length:
+                del self._cache[self._job]
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class ThreadPool(Pool):
+    
+    from .dummy import Process
+    
+    def __init__(self, processes=None, initializer=None, initargs=()):
+        Pool.__init__(self, processes, initializer, initargs)
+        
+    def _setup_queues(self):
+        self._inqueue = Queue.Queue()
+        self._outqueue = Queue.Queue()
+        self._quick_put = self._inqueue.put
+        self._quick_get = self._outqueue.get
+        
+    @staticmethod
+    def _help_stuff_finish(inqueue, task_handler, size):
+        # put sentinels at head of inqueue to make workers finish
+        inqueue.not_empty.acquire()
+        try:
+            inqueue.queue.clear()
+            inqueue.queue.extend([None] * size)
+            inqueue.not_empty.notifyAll()
+        finally:
+            inqueue.not_empty.release()
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..915d863
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
@@ -0,0 +1,302 @@
+#
+# Module providing the `Process` class which emulates `threading.Thread`
+#
+# multiprocessing/process.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = ['Process', 'current_process', 'active_children']
+
+#
+# Imports
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+import signal
+import itertools
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+try:
+    ORIGINAL_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
+except OSError:
+    ORIGINAL_DIR = None
+
+try:
+    bytes
+except NameError:
+    bytes = str                  # XXX not needed in Py2.6 and Py3.0
+
+#
+# Public functions
+#
+
+def current_process():
+    '''
+    Return process object representing the current process
+    '''
+    return _current_process
+
+def active_children():
+    '''
+    Return list of process objects corresponding to live child processes
+    '''
+    _cleanup()
+    return list(_current_process._children)
+    
+#
+#
+#
+
+def _cleanup():
+    # check for processes which have finished
+    for p in list(_current_process._children):
+        if p._popen.poll() is not None:
+            _current_process._children.discard(p)
+
+#
+# The `Process` class
+#
+
+class Process(object):
+    '''
+    Process objects represent activity that is run in a separate process
+
+    The class is analagous to `threading.Thread`
+    '''
+    _Popen = None
+    
+    def __init__(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}):
+        assert group is None, 'group argument must be None for now'
+        count = _current_process._counter.next()
+        self._identity = _current_process._identity + (count,)
+        self._authkey = _current_process._authkey
+        self._daemonic = _current_process._daemonic
+        self._tempdir = _current_process._tempdir
+        self._parent_pid = os.getpid()
+        self._popen = None
+        self._target = target
+        self._args = tuple(args)
+        self._kwargs = dict(kwargs)
+        self._name = name or type(self).__name__ + '-' + \
+                     ':'.join(str(i) for i in self._identity)
+
+    def run(self):
+        '''
+        Method to be run in sub-process; can be overridden in sub-class
+        '''
+        if self._target:
+            self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
+            
+    def start(self):
+        '''
+        Start child process
+        '''
+        assert self._popen is None, 'cannot start a process twice'
+        assert self._parent_pid == os.getpid(), \
+               'can only start a process object created by current process'
+        assert not _current_process._daemonic, \
+               'daemonic processes are not allowed to have children'
+        _cleanup()
+        if self._Popen is not None:
+            Popen = self._Popen
+        else:
+            from .forking import Popen
+        self._popen = Popen(self)
+        _current_process._children.add(self)
+
+    def terminate(self):
+        '''
+        Terminate process; sends SIGTERM signal or uses TerminateProcess()
+        '''
+        self._popen.terminate()
+        
+    def join(self, timeout=None):
+        '''
+        Wait until child process terminates
+        '''
+        assert self._parent_pid == os.getpid(), 'can only join a child process'
+        assert self._popen is not None, 'can only join a started process'
+        res = self._popen.wait(timeout)
+        if res is not None:
+            _current_process._children.discard(self)
+
+    def is_alive(self):
+        '''
+        Return whether process is alive
+        '''
+        if self is _current_process:
+            return True
+        assert self._parent_pid == os.getpid(), 'can only test a child process'
+        if self._popen is None:
+            return False
+        self._popen.poll()
+        return self._popen.returncode is None
+
+    def get_name(self):
+        '''
+        Return name of process
+        '''
+        return self._name
+
+    def set_name(self, name):
+        '''
+        Set name of process
+        '''
+        assert isinstance(name, str), 'name must be a string'
+        self._name = name
+
+    def is_daemon(self):
+        '''
+        Return whether process is a daemon
+        '''
+        return self._daemonic
+
+    def set_daemon(self, daemonic):
+        '''
+        Set whether process is a daemon
+        '''
+        assert self._popen is None, 'process has already started'
+        self._daemonic = daemonic
+
+    def get_authkey(self):
+        '''
+        Return authorization key of process
+        '''
+        return self._authkey
+
+    def set_authkey(self, authkey):
+        '''
+        Set authorization key of process
+        '''
+        self._authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey)
+
+    def get_exitcode(self):
+        '''
+        Return exit code of process or `None` if it has yet to stop
+        '''
+        if self._popen is None:
+            return self._popen
+        return self._popen.poll()
+
+    def get_ident(self):
+        '''
+        Return indentifier (PID) of process or `None` if it has yet to start
+        '''
+        if self is _current_process:
+            return os.getpid()
+        else:
+            return self._popen and self._popen.pid
+
+    pid = property(get_ident)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        if self is _current_process:
+            status = 'started'
+        elif self._parent_pid != os.getpid():
+            status = 'unknown'
+        elif self._popen is None:
+            status = 'initial'
+        else:
+            if self._popen.poll() is not None:
+                status = self.get_exitcode()
+            else:
+                status = 'started'
+
+        if type(status) is int:
+            if status == 0:
+                status = 'stopped'
+            else:
+                status = 'stopped[%s]' % _exitcode_to_name.get(status, status)
+
+        return '<%s(%s, %s%s)>' % (type(self).__name__, self._name,
+                                   status, self._daemonic and ' daemon' or '')
+
+    ##
+        
+    def _bootstrap(self):
+        from . import util
+        global _current_process
+        
+        try:
+            self._children = set()
+            self._counter = itertools.count(1)
+            try:
+                os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())
+            except (OSError, ValueError):
+                pass
+            _current_process = self
+            util._finalizer_registry.clear()
+            util._run_after_forkers()
+            util.info('child process calling self.run()')
+            try:
+                self.run()
+                exitcode = 0
+            finally:
+                util._exit_function()
+        except SystemExit, e:
+            if not e.args:
+                exitcode = 1
+            elif type(e.args[0]) is int:
+                exitcode = e.args[0]
+            else:
+                sys.stderr.write(e.args[0] + '\n')
+                sys.stderr.flush()
+                exitcode = 1
+        except:
+            exitcode = 1
+            import traceback
+            sys.stderr.write('Process %s:\n' % self.get_name())
+            sys.stderr.flush()
+            traceback.print_exc()
+
+        util.info('process exiting with exitcode %d' % exitcode)
+        return exitcode
+
+#
+# We subclass bytes to avoid accidental transmission of auth keys over network
+#
+
+class AuthenticationString(bytes):
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        from .forking import Popen
+        if not Popen.thread_is_spawning():
+            raise TypeError(
+                'Pickling an AuthenticationString object is '
+                'disallowed for security reasons'
+                )
+        return AuthenticationString, (bytes(self),)
+
+#
+# Create object representing the main process
+#
+
+class _MainProcess(Process):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._identity = ()
+        self._daemonic = False
+        self._name = 'MainProcess'
+        self._parent_pid = None
+        self._popen = None
+        self._counter = itertools.count(1)
+        self._children = set()
+        self._authkey = AuthenticationString(os.urandom(32))
+        self._tempdir = None
+
+_current_process = _MainProcess()
+del _MainProcess
+
+#
+# Give names to some return codes
+#
+
+_exitcode_to_name = {}
+
+for name, signum in signal.__dict__.items():
+    if name[:3]=='SIG' and '_' not in name:
+        _exitcode_to_name[-signum] = name
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/queues.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/queues.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07d5aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/queues.py
@@ -0,0 +1,356 @@
+#
+# Module implementing queues
+#
+# multiprocessing/queues.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = ['Queue', 'SimpleQueue']
+
+import sys
+import os
+import threading
+import collections
+import time
+import atexit
+import weakref
+
+from Queue import Empty, Full
+import _multiprocessing
+from multiprocessing import Pipe
+from multiprocessing.synchronize import Lock, BoundedSemaphore, Semaphore, Condition
+from multiprocessing.util import debug, info, Finalize, register_after_fork
+from multiprocessing.forking import assert_spawning
+
+#
+# Queue type using a pipe, buffer and thread
+#
+
+class Queue(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, maxsize=0):
+        if maxsize <= 0:
+            maxsize = _multiprocessing.SemLock.SEM_VALUE_MAX
+        self._maxsize = maxsize
+        self._reader, self._writer = Pipe(duplex=False)
+        self._rlock = Lock()
+        self._opid = os.getpid()
+        if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            self._wlock = None
+        else:
+            self._wlock = Lock()
+        self._sem = BoundedSemaphore(maxsize)
+            
+        self._after_fork()
+        
+        if sys.platform != 'win32':
+            register_after_fork(self, Queue._after_fork)
+
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        assert_spawning(self)
+        return (self._maxsize, self._reader, self._writer,
+                self._rlock, self._wlock, self._sem, self._opid)
+    
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        (self._maxsize, self._reader, self._writer,
+         self._rlock, self._wlock, self._sem, self._opid) = state
+        self._after_fork()
+        
+    def _after_fork(self):
+        debug('Queue._after_fork()')
+        self._notempty = threading.Condition(threading.Lock())
+        self._buffer = collections.deque()
+        self._thread = None
+        self._jointhread = None
+        self._joincancelled = False
+        self._closed = False
+        self._close = None
+        self._send = self._writer.send
+        self._recv = self._reader.recv
+        self._poll = self._reader.poll
+        
+    def put(self, obj, block=True, timeout=None):
+        assert not self._closed
+        if not self._sem.acquire(block, timeout):
+            raise Full
+
+        self._notempty.acquire()
+        try:
+            if self._thread is None:
+                self._start_thread()
+            self._buffer.append(obj)
+            self._notempty.notify()
+        finally:
+            self._notempty.release()
+
+    def get(self, block=True, timeout=None):
+        if block and timeout is None:
+            self._rlock.acquire()
+            try:
+                res = self._recv()
+                self._sem.release()
+                return res
+            finally:
+                self._rlock.release()
+                
+        else:
+            if block:
+                deadline = time.time() + timeout
+            if not self._rlock.acquire(block, timeout):
+                raise Empty
+            try:
+                if not self._poll(block and (deadline-time.time()) or 0.0):
+                    raise Empty
+                res = self._recv()
+                self._sem.release()
+                return res
+            finally:
+                self._rlock.release()
+
+    def qsize(self):
+        # Raises NotImplementError on Mac OSX because of broken sem_getvalue()
+        return self._maxsize - self._sem._semlock._get_value()
+
+    def empty(self):
+        return not self._poll()
+
+    def full(self):
+        return self._sem._semlock._is_zero()
+
+    def get_nowait(self):
+        return self.get(False)
+
+    def put_nowait(self, obj):
+        return self.put(obj, False)
+
+    def close(self):
+        self._closed = True
+        self._reader.close()
+        if self._close:
+            self._close()
+
+    def join_thread(self):
+        debug('Queue.join_thread()')
+        assert self._closed
+        if self._jointhread:
+            self._jointhread()
+    
+    def cancel_join_thread(self):
+        debug('Queue.cancel_join_thread()')
+        self._joincancelled = True
+        try:
+            self._jointhread.cancel()
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
+
+    def _start_thread(self):
+        debug('Queue._start_thread()')
+        
+        # Start thread which transfers data from buffer to pipe
+        self._buffer.clear()
+        self._thread = threading.Thread(
+            target=Queue._feed,
+            args=(self._buffer, self._notempty, self._send,
+                  self._wlock, self._writer.close),
+            name='QueueFeederThread'
+            )
+        self._thread.setDaemon(True)
+
+        debug('doing self._thread.start()')
+        self._thread.start()
+        debug('... done self._thread.start()')
+
+        # On process exit we will wait for data to be flushed to pipe.
+        #
+        # However, if this process created the queue then all
+        # processes which use the queue will be descendants of this
+        # process.  Therefore waiting for the queue to be flushed
+        # is pointless once all the child processes have been joined.
+        created_by_this_process = (self._opid == os.getpid())
+        if not self._joincancelled and not created_by_this_process:
+            self._jointhread = Finalize(
+                self._thread, Queue._finalize_join,
+                [weakref.ref(self._thread)],
+                exitpriority=-5
+                )
+            
+        # Send sentinel to the thread queue object when garbage collected
+        self._close = Finalize(
+            self, Queue._finalize_close,
+            [self._buffer, self._notempty],
+            exitpriority=10
+            )
+        
+    @staticmethod
+    def _finalize_join(twr):
+        debug('joining queue thread')
+        thread = twr()
+        if thread is not None:
+            thread.join()
+            debug('... queue thread joined')
+        else:
+            debug('... queue thread already dead')
+            
+    @staticmethod
+    def _finalize_close(buffer, notempty):
+        debug('telling queue thread to quit')
+        notempty.acquire()
+        try:
+            buffer.append(_sentinel)
+            notempty.notify()
+        finally:
+            notempty.release()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _feed(buffer, notempty, send, writelock, close):
+        debug('starting thread to feed data to pipe')
+        from .util import is_exiting
+        
+        nacquire = notempty.acquire
+        nrelease = notempty.release
+        nwait = notempty.wait
+        bpopleft = buffer.popleft
+        sentinel = _sentinel
+        if sys.platform != 'win32':
+            wacquire = writelock.acquire
+            wrelease = writelock.release
+        else:
+            wacquire = None
+        
+        try:
+            while 1:
+                nacquire()
+                try:
+                    if not buffer:
+                        nwait()
+                finally:
+                    nrelease()
+                try:
+                    while 1:
+                        obj = bpopleft()
+                        if obj is sentinel:
+                            debug('feeder thread got sentinel -- exiting')
+                            close()
+                            return
+
+                        if wacquire is None:
+                            send(obj)
+                        else:
+                            wacquire()
+                            try:
+                                send(obj)
+                            finally:
+                                wrelease()
+                except IndexError:
+                    pass
+        except Exception, e:
+            # Since this runs in a daemon thread the resources it uses
+            # may be become unusable while the process is cleaning up.
+            # We ignore errors which happen after the process has
+            # started to cleanup.
+            try:
+                if is_exiting():
+                    info('error in queue thread: %s', e)
+                else:
+                    import traceback
+                    traceback.print_exc()
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            
+_sentinel = object()
+
+#
+# A queue type which also supports join() and task_done() methods
+#
+# Note that if you do not call task_done() for each finished task then
+# eventually the counter's semaphore may overflow causing Bad Things
+# to happen.
+#
+
+class JoinableQueue(Queue):
+
+    def __init__(self, maxsize=0):
+        Queue.__init__(self, maxsize)
+        self._unfinished_tasks = Semaphore(0)
+        self._cond = Condition()
+        
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        return Queue.__getstate__(self) + (self._cond, self._unfinished_tasks)
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        Queue.__setstate__(self, state[:-2])
+        self._cond, self._unfinished_tasks = state[-2:]
+
+    def put(self, item, block=True, timeout=None):
+        Queue.put(self, item, block, timeout)
+        self._unfinished_tasks.release()
+        
+    def task_done(self):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            if not self._unfinished_tasks.acquire(False):
+                raise ValueError('task_done() called too many times')
+            if self._unfinished_tasks._semlock._is_zero():
+                self._cond.notify_all()
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+            
+    def join(self):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            if not self._unfinished_tasks._semlock._is_zero():
+                self._cond.wait()
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+#
+# Simplified Queue type -- really just a locked pipe
+#
+
+class SimpleQueue(object):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._reader, self._writer = Pipe(duplex=False)
+        self._rlock = Lock()
+        if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            self._wlock = None
+        else:
+            self._wlock = Lock()
+        self._make_methods()
+
+    def empty(self):
+        return not self._reader.poll()
+
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        assert_spawning(self)
+        return (self._reader, self._writer, self._rlock, self._wlock)
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        (self._reader, self._writer, self._rlock, self._wlock) = state
+        self._make_methods()
+
+    def _make_methods(self):
+        recv = self._reader.recv
+        racquire, rrelease = self._rlock.acquire, self._rlock.release
+        def get():
+            racquire()
+            try:
+                return recv()
+            finally:
+                rrelease()
+        self.get = get
+
+        if self._wlock is None:
+            # writes to a message oriented win32 pipe are atomic
+            self.put = self._writer.send
+        else:
+            send = self._writer.send
+            wacquire, wrelease = self._wlock.acquire, self._wlock.release
+            def put(obj):
+                wacquire()
+                try:
+                    return send(obj)
+                finally:
+                    wrelease()
+            self.put = put
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa77075
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+#
+# Module to allow connection and socket objects to be transferred
+# between processes
+#
+# multiprocessing/reduction.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = []
+
+import os
+import sys
+import socket
+import threading
+import copy_reg
+
+import _multiprocessing
+from multiprocessing import current_process
+from multiprocessing.forking import Popen, duplicate, close
+from multiprocessing.util import register_after_fork, debug, sub_debug
+from multiprocessing.connection import Client, Listener
+
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+if not(sys.platform == 'win32' or hasattr(_multiprocessing, 'recvfd')):
+    raise ImportError('pickling of connections not supported')
+
+#
+# Platform specific definitions
+#
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    import _subprocess
+    from ._multiprocessing import win32
+    
+    def send_handle(conn, handle, destination_pid):
+        process_handle = win32.OpenProcess(
+            win32.PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, False, destination_pid
+            )
+        try:
+            new_handle = duplicate(handle, process_handle)
+            conn.send(new_handle)
+        finally:
+            close(process_handle)
+            
+    def recv_handle(conn):
+        return conn.recv()
+
+else:
+    def send_handle(conn, handle, destination_pid):
+        _multiprocessing.sendfd(conn.fileno(), handle)
+        
+    def recv_handle(conn):
+        return _multiprocessing.recvfd(conn.fileno())
+
+#
+# Support for a per-process server thread which caches pickled handles
+#
+
+_cache = set()
+
+def _reset(obj):
+    global _lock, _listener, _cache
+    for h in _cache:
+        close(h)
+    _cache.clear()
+    _lock = threading.Lock()
+    _listener = None
+
+_reset(None)
+register_after_fork(_reset, _reset)
+
+def _get_listener():
+    global _listener
+
+    if _listener is None:
+        _lock.acquire()
+        try:
+            if _listener is None:
+                debug('starting listener and thread for sending handles')
+                _listener = Listener(authkey=current_process().get_authkey())
+                t = threading.Thread(target=_serve)
+                t.setDaemon(True)
+                t.start()
+        finally:
+            _lock.release()
+
+    return _listener
+
+def _serve():
+    from .util import is_exiting, sub_warning
+    
+    while 1:
+        try:
+            conn = _listener.accept()
+            handle_wanted, destination_pid = conn.recv()
+            _cache.remove(handle_wanted)
+            send_handle(conn, handle_wanted, destination_pid)
+            close(handle_wanted)
+            conn.close()
+        except:
+            if not is_exiting():
+                import traceback
+                sub_warning(
+                    'thread for sharing handles raised exception :\n' +
+                    '-'*79 + '\n' + traceback.format_exc() + '-'*79
+                    )
+    
+#
+# Functions to be used for pickling/unpickling objects with handles
+#
+
+def reduce_handle(handle):
+    if Popen.thread_is_spawning():
+        return (None, Popen.duplicate_for_child(handle), True)
+    dup_handle = duplicate(handle)
+    _cache.add(dup_handle)
+    sub_debug('reducing handle %d', handle)
+    return (_get_listener().address, dup_handle, False)
+
+def rebuild_handle(pickled_data):
+    address, handle, inherited = pickled_data
+    if inherited:
+        return handle
+    sub_debug('rebuilding handle %d', handle)
+    conn = Client(address, authkey=current_process().get_authkey())
+    conn.send((handle, os.getpid()))
+    new_handle = recv_handle(conn)
+    conn.close()
+    return new_handle
+
+#
+# Register `_multiprocessing.Connection` with `copy_reg`
+#
+
+def reduce_connection(conn):
+    rh = reduce_handle(conn.fileno())
+    return rebuild_connection, (rh, conn.readable, conn.writable)
+
+def rebuild_connection(reduced_handle, readable, writable):
+    handle = rebuild_handle(reduced_handle)
+    return _multiprocessing.Connection(
+        handle, readable=readable, writable=writable
+        )
+
+copy_reg.pickle(_multiprocessing.Connection, reduce_connection)
+
+#
+# Register `socket.socket` with `copy_reg`
+#
+
+def fromfd(fd, family, type_, proto=0):
+    s = socket.fromfd(fd, family, type_, proto)
+    if s.__class__ is not socket.socket:
+        s = socket.socket(_sock=s)
+    return s
+
+def reduce_socket(s):
+    reduced_handle = reduce_handle(s.fileno())
+    return rebuild_socket, (reduced_handle, s.family, s.type, s.proto)
+
+def rebuild_socket(reduced_handle, family, type_, proto):
+    fd = rebuild_handle(reduced_handle)
+    _sock = fromfd(fd, family, type_, proto)
+    close(fd)
+    return _sock
+
+copy_reg.pickle(socket.socket, reduce_socket)
+
+#
+# Register `_multiprocessing.PipeConnection` with `copy_reg`
+#
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    
+    def reduce_pipe_connection(conn):
+        rh = reduce_handle(conn.fileno())
+        return rebuild_pipe_connection, (rh, conn.readable, conn.writable)
+    
+    def rebuild_pipe_connection(reduced_handle, readable, writable):
+        handle = rebuild_handle(reduced_handle)
+        return _multiprocessing.PipeConnection(
+            handle, readable=readable, writable=writable
+            )
+    
+    copy_reg.pickle(_multiprocessing.PipeConnection, reduce_pipe_connection)
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6877249
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+#
+# Module which supports allocation of ctypes objects from shared memory
+#
+# multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+import sys
+import ctypes
+import weakref
+import copy_reg
+
+from multiprocessing import heap, RLock
+from multiprocessing.forking import assert_spawning
+
+__all__ = ['RawValue', 'RawArray', 'Value', 'Array', 'copy', 'synchronized']
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+typecode_to_type = {
+    'c': ctypes.c_char,  'u': ctypes.c_wchar,
+    'b': ctypes.c_byte,  'B': ctypes.c_ubyte,
+    'h': ctypes.c_short, 'H': ctypes.c_ushort,
+    'i': ctypes.c_int,   'I': ctypes.c_uint,
+    'l': ctypes.c_long,  'L': ctypes.c_ulong,
+    'f': ctypes.c_float, 'd': ctypes.c_double
+    }
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+def _new_value(type_):
+    size = ctypes.sizeof(type_)
+    wrapper = heap.BufferWrapper(size)
+    return rebuild_ctype(type_, wrapper, None)
+
+def RawValue(typecode_or_type, *args):
+    '''
+    Returns a ctypes object allocated from shared memory
+    '''
+    type_ = typecode_to_type.get(typecode_or_type, typecode_or_type)
+    obj = _new_value(type_)
+    ctypes.memset(ctypes.addressof(obj), 0, ctypes.sizeof(obj))
+    obj.__init__(*args)
+    return obj
+
+def RawArray(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer):
+    '''
+    Returns a ctypes array allocated from shared memory
+    '''
+    type_ = typecode_to_type.get(typecode_or_type, typecode_or_type)
+    if isinstance(size_or_initializer, int):
+        type_ = type_ * size_or_initializer
+        return _new_value(type_)
+    else:
+        type_ = type_ * len(size_or_initializer)
+        result = _new_value(type_)
+        result.__init__(*size_or_initializer)
+        return result
+
+def Value(typecode_or_type, *args, **kwds):
+    '''
+    Return a synchronization wrapper for a Value
+    '''
+    lock = kwds.pop('lock', None)
+    if kwds:
+        raise ValueError('unrecognized keyword argument(s): %s' % kwds.keys())
+    obj = RawValue(typecode_or_type, *args)
+    if lock is None:
+        lock = RLock()
+    assert hasattr(lock, 'acquire')
+    return synchronized(obj, lock)
+
+def Array(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer, **kwds):
+    '''
+    Return a synchronization wrapper for a RawArray
+    '''
+    lock = kwds.pop('lock', None)
+    if kwds:
+        raise ValueError('unrecognized keyword argument(s): %s' % kwds.keys())
+    obj = RawArray(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer)
+    if lock is None:
+        lock = RLock()
+    assert hasattr(lock, 'acquire')
+    return synchronized(obj, lock)
+
+def copy(obj):
+    new_obj = _new_value(type(obj))
+    ctypes.pointer(new_obj)[0] = obj
+    return new_obj
+    
+def synchronized(obj, lock=None):
+    assert not isinstance(obj, SynchronizedBase), 'object already synchronized'
+    
+    if isinstance(obj, ctypes._SimpleCData):
+        return Synchronized(obj, lock)
+    elif isinstance(obj, ctypes.Array):
+        if obj._type_ is ctypes.c_char:
+            return SynchronizedString(obj, lock)
+        return SynchronizedArray(obj, lock)
+    else:
+        cls = type(obj)
+        try:
+            scls = class_cache[cls]
+        except KeyError:
+            names = [field[0] for field in cls._fields_]
+            d = dict((name, make_property(name)) for name in names)
+            classname = 'Synchronized' + cls.__name__
+            scls = class_cache[cls] = type(classname, (SynchronizedBase,), d)
+        return scls(obj, lock)
+
+#
+# Functions for pickling/unpickling
+#
+
+def reduce_ctype(obj):
+    assert_spawning(obj)
+    if isinstance(obj, ctypes.Array):
+        return rebuild_ctype, (obj._type_, obj._wrapper, obj._length_)
+    else:
+        return rebuild_ctype, (type(obj), obj._wrapper, None)
+    
+def rebuild_ctype(type_, wrapper, length):
+    if length is not None:
+        type_ = type_ * length
+    if sys.platform == 'win32' and type_ not in copy_reg.dispatch_table:
+        copy_reg.pickle(type_, reduce_ctype)
+    obj = type_.from_address(wrapper.get_address())
+    obj._wrapper = wrapper
+    return obj
+
+#
+# Function to create properties
+#
+
+def make_property(name):
+    try:
+        return prop_cache[name]
+    except KeyError:
+        d = {}
+        exec template % ((name,)*7) in d
+        prop_cache[name] = d[name]
+        return d[name]
+
+template = '''
+def get%s(self):
+    self.acquire()
+    try:
+        return self._obj.%s
+    finally:
+        self.release()
+def set%s(self, value):
+    self.acquire()
+    try:
+        self._obj.%s = value
+    finally:
+        self.release()
+%s = property(get%s, set%s)
+'''
+
+prop_cache = {}
+class_cache = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
+
+#
+# Synchronized wrappers
+#
+
+class SynchronizedBase(object):
+    
+    def __init__(self, obj, lock=None):
+        self._obj = obj
+        self._lock = lock or RLock()
+        self.acquire = self._lock.acquire
+        self.release = self._lock.release
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        assert_spawning(self)
+        return synchronized, (self._obj, self._lock)
+    
+    def get_obj(self):
+        return self._obj
+    
+    def get_lock(self):
+        return self._lock
+    
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<%s wrapper for %s>' % (type(self).__name__, self._obj)
+    
+    
+class Synchronized(SynchronizedBase):
+    value = make_property('value')
+    
+    
+class SynchronizedArray(SynchronizedBase):
+    
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self._obj)
+    
+    def __getitem__(self, i):
+        self.acquire()
+        try:
+            return self._obj[i]
+        finally:
+            self.release()
+            
+    def __setitem__(self, i, value):
+        self.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._obj[i] = value
+        finally:
+            self.release()
+            
+    def __getslice__(self, start, stop):
+        self.acquire()
+        try:
+            return self._obj[start:stop]
+        finally:
+            self.release()
+            
+    def __setslice__(self, start, stop, values):
+        self.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._obj[start:stop] = values
+        finally:
+            self.release()
+            
+            
+class SynchronizedString(SynchronizedArray):
+    value = make_property('value')
+    raw = make_property('raw')
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa09857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/synchronize.py
@@ -0,0 +1,294 @@
+#
+# Module implementing synchronization primitives
+#
+# multiprocessing/synchronize.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+__all__ = [
+    'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'Condition', 'Event'
+    ]
+
+import threading
+import os
+import sys
+
+from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
+
+import _multiprocessing
+from multiprocessing.process import current_process
+from multiprocessing.util import Finalize, register_after_fork, debug
+from multiprocessing.forking import assert_spawning, Popen
+
+#
+# Constants
+#
+
+RECURSIVE_MUTEX, SEMAPHORE = range(2)
+SEM_VALUE_MAX = _multiprocessing.SemLock.SEM_VALUE_MAX
+
+#
+# Base class for semaphores and mutexes; wraps `_multiprocessing.SemLock`
+#
+
+class SemLock(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, kind, value, maxvalue):
+        sl = self._semlock = _multiprocessing.SemLock(kind, value, maxvalue)
+        debug('created semlock with handle %s' % sl.handle)
+        self._make_methods()
+        
+        if sys.platform != 'win32':
+            def _after_fork(obj):
+                obj._semlock._after_fork()
+            register_after_fork(self, _after_fork)
+
+    def _make_methods(self):
+        self.acquire = self._semlock.acquire
+        self.release = self._semlock.release
+        self.__enter__ = self._semlock.__enter__
+        self.__exit__ = self._semlock.__exit__
+
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        assert_spawning(self)
+        sl = self._semlock
+        return (Popen.duplicate_for_child(sl.handle), sl.kind, sl.maxvalue)
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        self._semlock = _multiprocessing.SemLock._rebuild(*state)
+        debug('recreated blocker with handle %r' % state[0])
+        self._make_methods()
+
+#
+# Semaphore
+#
+
+class Semaphore(SemLock):
+
+    def __init__(self, value=1):
+        SemLock.__init__(self, SEMAPHORE, value, SEM_VALUE_MAX)
+
+    def get_value(self):
+        return self._semlock._get_value()
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            value = self._semlock._get_value()
+        except Exception:
+            value = 'unknown'
+        return '<Semaphore(value=%s)>' % value
+
+#
+# Bounded semaphore
+#
+
+class BoundedSemaphore(Semaphore):
+
+    def __init__(self, value=1):
+        SemLock.__init__(self, SEMAPHORE, value, value)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            value = self._semlock._get_value()
+        except Exception:
+            value = 'unknown'
+        return '<BoundedSemaphore(value=%s, maxvalue=%s)>' % \
+               (value, self._semlock.maxvalue)
+
+#
+# Non-recursive lock
+#
+
+class Lock(SemLock):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        SemLock.__init__(self, SEMAPHORE, 1, 1)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            if self._semlock._is_mine():
+                name = current_process().get_name()
+                if threading.currentThread().getName() != 'MainThread':
+                    name += '|' + threading.currentThread().getName()
+            elif self._semlock._get_value() == 1:
+                name = 'None'
+            elif self._semlock._count() > 0:
+                name = 'SomeOtherThread'
+            else:
+                name = 'SomeOtherProcess'
+        except Exception:
+            name = 'unknown'
+        return '<Lock(owner=%s)>' % name
+
+#
+# Recursive lock
+#
+
+class RLock(SemLock):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        SemLock.__init__(self, RECURSIVE_MUTEX, 1, 1)
+        
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            if self._semlock._is_mine():
+                name = current_process().get_name()
+                if threading.currentThread().getName() != 'MainThread':
+                    name += '|' + threading.currentThread().getName()
+                count = self._semlock._count()
+            elif self._semlock._get_value() == 1:
+                name, count = 'None', 0
+            elif self._semlock._count() > 0:
+                name, count = 'SomeOtherThread', 'nonzero'
+            else:
+                name, count = 'SomeOtherProcess', 'nonzero'
+        except Exception:
+            name, count = 'unknown', 'unknown'
+        return '<RLock(%s, %s)>' % (name, count)
+
+#
+# Condition variable
+#
+
+class Condition(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, lock=None):
+        self._lock = lock or RLock()
+        self._sleeping_count = Semaphore(0)
+        self._woken_count = Semaphore(0)
+        self._wait_semaphore = Semaphore(0)
+        self._make_methods()
+
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        assert_spawning(self)
+        return (self._lock, self._sleeping_count,
+                self._woken_count, self._wait_semaphore)
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        (self._lock, self._sleeping_count,
+         self._woken_count, self._wait_semaphore) = state
+        self._make_methods()
+
+    def _make_methods(self):
+        self.acquire = self._lock.acquire
+        self.release = self._lock.release
+        self.__enter__ = self._lock.__enter__
+        self.__exit__ = self._lock.__exit__
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            num_waiters = (self._sleeping_count._semlock._get_value() -
+                           self._woken_count._semlock._get_value())
+        except Exception:
+            num_waiters = 'unkown'
+        return '<Condition(%s, %s)>' % (self._lock, num_waiters)
+
+    def wait(self, timeout=None):
+        assert self._lock._semlock._is_mine(), \
+               'must acquire() condition before using wait()'
+
+        # indicate that this thread is going to sleep
+        self._sleeping_count.release()
+
+        # release lock
+        count = self._lock._semlock._count()
+        for i in xrange(count):
+            self._lock.release()
+
+        try:
+            # wait for notification or timeout
+            self._wait_semaphore.acquire(True, timeout)
+        finally:
+            # indicate that this thread has woken
+            self._woken_count.release()
+
+            # reacquire lock
+            for i in xrange(count):
+                self._lock.acquire()
+
+    def notify(self):
+        assert self._lock._semlock._is_mine(), 'lock is not owned'
+        assert not self._wait_semaphore.acquire(False)
+        
+        # to take account of timeouts since last notify() we subtract
+        # woken_count from sleeping_count and rezero woken_count
+        while self._woken_count.acquire(False):
+            res = self._sleeping_count.acquire(False)
+            assert res
+            
+        if self._sleeping_count.acquire(False): # try grabbing a sleeper
+            self._wait_semaphore.release()      # wake up one sleeper
+            self._woken_count.acquire()         # wait for the sleeper to wake
+            
+            # rezero _wait_semaphore in case a timeout just happened
+            self._wait_semaphore.acquire(False)
+
+    def notify_all(self):
+        assert self._lock._semlock._is_mine(), 'lock is not owned'
+        assert not self._wait_semaphore.acquire(False)
+
+        # to take account of timeouts since last notify*() we subtract
+        # woken_count from sleeping_count and rezero woken_count
+        while self._woken_count.acquire(False):
+            res = self._sleeping_count.acquire(False)
+            assert res
+            
+        sleepers = 0
+        while self._sleeping_count.acquire(False):
+            self._wait_semaphore.release()        # wake up one sleeper
+            sleepers += 1
+
+        if sleepers:
+            for i in xrange(sleepers):
+                self._woken_count.acquire()       # wait for a sleeper to wake
+
+            # rezero wait_semaphore in case some timeouts just happened
+            while self._wait_semaphore.acquire(False):
+                pass
+
+#
+# Event
+#
+
+class Event(object):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._cond = Condition(Lock())
+        self._flag = Semaphore(0)
+
+    def is_set(self):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            if self._flag.acquire(False):
+                self._flag.release()
+                return True
+            return False
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+    
+    def set(self):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._flag.acquire(False)
+            self._flag.release()
+            self._cond.notify_all()
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+    def clear(self):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            self._flag.acquire(False)
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
+
+    def wait(self, timeout=None):
+        self._cond.acquire()
+        try:
+            if self._flag.acquire(False):
+                self._flag.release()
+            else:
+                self._cond.wait(timeout)
+        finally:
+            self._cond.release()
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/util.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/util.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1b190c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/util.py
@@ -0,0 +1,336 @@
+#
+# Module providing various facilities to other parts of the package
+#
+# multiprocessing/util.py
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+#
+
+import itertools
+import weakref
+import copy_reg
+import atexit
+import threading        # we want threading to install it's
+                        # cleanup function before multiprocessing does
+
+from multiprocessing.process import current_process, active_children
+
+__all__ = [
+    'sub_debug', 'debug', 'info', 'sub_warning', 'get_logger',
+    'log_to_stderr', 'get_temp_dir', 'register_after_fork',
+    'is_exiting', 'Finalize', 'ForkAwareThreadLock', 'ForkAwareLocal'
+    ]
+
+#
+# Logging
+#
+
+NOTSET = 0
+SUBDEBUG = 5
+DEBUG = 10
+INFO = 20
+SUBWARNING = 25
+
+LOGGER_NAME = 'multiprocessing'
+DEFAULT_LOGGING_FORMAT = '[%(levelname)s/%(processName)s] %(message)s'
+
+_logger = None
+_log_to_stderr = False
+
+def sub_debug(msg, *args):
+    if _logger:
+        _logger.log(SUBDEBUG, msg, *args)
+
+def debug(msg, *args):
+    if _logger:
+        _logger.log(DEBUG, msg, *args)
+
+def info(msg, *args):
+    if _logger:
+        _logger.log(INFO, msg, *args)
+
+def sub_warning(msg, *args):
+    if _logger:
+        _logger.log(SUBWARNING, msg, *args)
+
+def get_logger():
+    '''
+    Returns logger used by multiprocessing
+    '''
+    global _logger
+
+    if not _logger:
+        import logging, atexit
+
+        # XXX multiprocessing should cleanup before logging
+        if hasattr(atexit, 'unregister'):
+            atexit.unregister(_exit_function)
+            atexit.register(_exit_function)
+        else:
+            atexit._exithandlers.remove((_exit_function, (), {}))
+            atexit._exithandlers.append((_exit_function, (), {}))
+
+        _check_logger_class()
+        _logger = logging.getLogger(LOGGER_NAME)
+
+    return _logger
+
+def _check_logger_class():
+    '''
+    Make sure process name is recorded when loggers are used
+    '''
+    # XXX This function is unnecessary once logging is patched
+    import logging
+    if hasattr(logging, 'multiprocessing'):
+        return
+    
+    logging._acquireLock()
+    try:
+        OldLoggerClass = logging.getLoggerClass()
+        if not getattr(OldLoggerClass, '_process_aware', False):
+            class ProcessAwareLogger(OldLoggerClass):
+                _process_aware = True
+                def makeRecord(self, *args, **kwds):
+                    record = OldLoggerClass.makeRecord(self, *args, **kwds)
+                    record.processName = current_process()._name
+                    return record
+            logging.setLoggerClass(ProcessAwareLogger)
+    finally:
+        logging._releaseLock()
+
+def log_to_stderr(level=None):
+    '''
+    Turn on logging and add a handler which prints to stderr
+    '''
+    global _log_to_stderr
+    import logging
+    logger = get_logger()
+    formatter = logging.Formatter(DEFAULT_LOGGING_FORMAT)
+    handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+    handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+    logger.addHandler(handler)
+    if level is not None:
+        logger.setLevel(level)
+    _log_to_stderr = True
+
+#
+# Function returning a temp directory which will be removed on exit
+#
+
+def get_temp_dir():
+    # get name of a temp directory which will be automatically cleaned up
+    if current_process()._tempdir is None:
+        import shutil, tempfile
+        tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='pymp-')
+        info('created temp directory %s', tempdir)
+        Finalize(None, shutil.rmtree, args=[tempdir], exitpriority=-100)
+        current_process()._tempdir = tempdir
+    return current_process()._tempdir
+
+#
+# Support for reinitialization of objects when bootstrapping a child process
+#
+
+_afterfork_registry = weakref.WeakValueDictionary()
+_afterfork_counter = itertools.count()
+
+def _run_after_forkers():
+    items = list(_afterfork_registry.items())
+    items.sort()
+    for (index, ident, func), obj in items:
+        try:
+            func(obj)
+        except Exception, e:
+            info('after forker raised exception %s', e)
+
+def register_after_fork(obj, func):
+    _afterfork_registry[(_afterfork_counter.next(), id(obj), func)] = obj
+
+#
+# Finalization using weakrefs
+#
+
+_finalizer_registry = {}
+_finalizer_counter = itertools.count()
+
+
+class Finalize(object):
+    '''
+    Class which supports object finalization using weakrefs
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, obj, callback, args=(), kwargs=None, exitpriority=None):
+        assert exitpriority is None or type(exitpriority) is int
+
+        if obj is not None:
+            self._weakref = weakref.ref(obj, self)
+        else:
+            assert exitpriority is not None
+
+        self._callback = callback
+        self._args = args
+        self._kwargs = kwargs or {}
+        self._key = (exitpriority, _finalizer_counter.next())
+
+        _finalizer_registry[self._key] = self
+
+    def __call__(self, wr=None):
+        '''
+        Run the callback unless it has already been called or cancelled
+        '''
+        try:
+            del _finalizer_registry[self._key]
+        except KeyError:
+            sub_debug('finalizer no longer registered')
+        else:
+            sub_debug('finalizer calling %s with args %s and kwargs %s',
+                     self._callback, self._args, self._kwargs)
+            res = self._callback(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
+            self._weakref = self._callback = self._args = \
+                            self._kwargs = self._key = None
+            return res
+
+    def cancel(self):
+        '''
+        Cancel finalization of the object
+        '''
+        try:
+            del _finalizer_registry[self._key]
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self._weakref = self._callback = self._args = \
+                            self._kwargs = self._key = None
+
+    def still_active(self):
+        '''
+        Return whether this finalizer is still waiting to invoke callback
+        '''
+        return self._key in _finalizer_registry
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            obj = self._weakref()
+        except (AttributeError, TypeError):
+            obj = None
+
+        if obj is None:
+            return '<Finalize object, dead>'
+
+        x = '<Finalize object, callback=%s' % \
+            getattr(self._callback, '__name__', self._callback)
+        if self._args:
+            x += ', args=' + str(self._args)
+        if self._kwargs:
+            x += ', kwargs=' + str(self._kwargs)
+        if self._key[0] is not None:
+            x += ', exitprority=' + str(self._key[0])
+        return x + '>'
+
+
+def _run_finalizers(minpriority=None):
+    '''
+    Run all finalizers whose exit priority is not None and at least minpriority
+
+    Finalizers with highest priority are called first; finalizers with
+    the same priority will be called in reverse order of creation.
+    '''
+    if minpriority is None:
+        f = lambda p : p[0][0] is not None
+    else:
+        f = lambda p : p[0][0] is not None and p[0][0] >= minpriority
+
+    items = [x for x in _finalizer_registry.items() if f(x)]
+    items.sort(reverse=True)
+
+    for key, finalizer in items:
+        sub_debug('calling %s', finalizer)
+        try:
+            finalizer()
+        except Exception:
+            import traceback
+            traceback.print_exc()
+
+    if minpriority is None:
+        _finalizer_registry.clear()
+
+#
+# Clean up on exit
+#
+
+def is_exiting():
+    '''
+    Returns true if the process is shutting down
+    '''
+    return _exiting or _exiting is None
+
+_exiting = False
+
+def _exit_function():
+    global _exiting
+
+    info('process shutting down')
+    debug('running all "atexit" finalizers with priority >= 0')
+    _run_finalizers(0)
+
+    for p in active_children():
+        if p._daemonic:
+            info('calling terminate() for daemon %s', p.get_name())
+            p._popen.terminate()
+
+    for p in active_children():
+        info('calling join() for process %s', p.get_name())
+        p.join()
+
+    debug('running the remaining "atexit" finalizers')
+    _run_finalizers()
+
+atexit.register(_exit_function)
+
+#
+# Some fork aware types
+#
+
+class ForkAwareThreadLock(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+        self.acquire = self._lock.acquire
+        self.release = self._lock.release
+        register_after_fork(self, ForkAwareThreadLock.__init__)
+
+class ForkAwareLocal(threading.local):
+    def __init__(self):
+        register_after_fork(self, lambda obj : obj.__dict__.clear())
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        return type(self), ()
+
+#
+# Try making some callable types picklable
+#
+
+def _reduce_method(m):
+    if m.im_self is None:
+        return getattr, (m.im_class, m.im_func.func_name)
+    else:
+        return getattr, (m.im_self, m.im_func.func_name)
+copy_reg.pickle(type(Finalize.__init__), _reduce_method)
+
+def _reduce_method_descriptor(m):
+    return getattr, (m.__objclass__, m.__name__)
+copy_reg.pickle(type(list.append), _reduce_method_descriptor)
+copy_reg.pickle(type(int.__add__), _reduce_method_descriptor)
+
+def _reduce_builtin_function_or_method(m):
+    return getattr, (m.__self__, m.__name__)
+copy_reg.pickle(type(list().append), _reduce_builtin_function_or_method)
+copy_reg.pickle(type(int().__add__), _reduce_builtin_function_or_method)
+
+try:
+    from functools import partial
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+else:
+    def _reduce_partial(p):
+        return _rebuild_partial, (p.func, p.args, p.keywords or {})
+    def _rebuild_partial(func, args, keywords):
+        return partial(func, *args, **keywords)
+    copy_reg.pickle(partial, _reduce_partial)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..523809b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1791 @@
+#
+# Unit tests for the multiprocessing package
+#
+
+import unittest
+import threading
+import Queue
+import time
+import sys
+import os
+import gc
+import signal
+import array
+import copy
+import socket
+import random
+import logging
+
+import _multiprocessing
+import multiprocessing.dummy
+import multiprocessing.connection
+import multiprocessing.managers
+import multiprocessing.heap
+import multiprocessing.managers
+import multiprocessing.pool
+
+from multiprocessing import util
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    def latin(s):
+        return s.encode('latin')
+else:
+    latin = str
+
+try:
+    bytes
+except NameError:
+    bytes = str
+    def bytearray(seq):
+        return array.array('c', seq)
+
+#
+# Constants
+#
+
+LOG_LEVEL = util.SUBWARNING
+#LOG_LEVEL = logging.WARNING
+
+DELTA = 0.1
+CHECK_TIMINGS = False     # making true makes tests take a lot longer
+                          # and can sometimes cause some non-serious
+                          # failures because some calls block a bit
+                          # longer than expected
+if CHECK_TIMINGS:
+    TIMEOUT1, TIMEOUT2, TIMEOUT3 = 0.82, 0.35, 1.4
+else:
+    TIMEOUT1, TIMEOUT2, TIMEOUT3 = 0.1, 0.1, 0.1
+
+HAVE_GETVALUE = not getattr(_multiprocessing,
+                            'HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE', False)
+
+#
+# Creates a wrapper for a function which records the time it takes to finish
+#
+
+class TimingWrapper(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, func):
+        self.func = func
+        self.elapsed = None
+
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):
+        t = time.time()
+        try:
+            return self.func(*args, **kwds)
+        finally:
+            self.elapsed = time.time() - t
+        
+#
+# Base class for test cases
+#
+
+class BaseTestCase(object):
+    
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes', 'manager', 'threads')
+
+    def assertTimingAlmostEqual(self, a, b):
+        if CHECK_TIMINGS:
+            self.assertAlmostEqual(a, b, 1)
+
+    def assertReturnsIfImplemented(self, value, func, *args):
+        try:
+            res = func(*args)
+        except NotImplementedError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            return self.assertEqual(value, res)
+
+#
+# Return the value of a semaphore
+#
+
+def get_value(self):
+    try:
+        return self.get_value()
+    except AttributeError:
+        try:
+            return self._Semaphore__value
+        except AttributeError:
+            try:
+                return self._value
+            except AttributeError:
+                raise NotImplementedError
+
+#
+# Testcases
+#
+
+class _TestProcess(BaseTestCase):
+    
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes', 'threads')
+    
+    def test_current(self):
+        if self.TYPE == 'threads':
+            return
+
+        current = self.current_process()
+        authkey = current.get_authkey()
+        
+        self.assertTrue(current.is_alive())
+        self.assertTrue(not current.is_daemon())        
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(authkey, bytes))
+        self.assertTrue(len(authkey) > 0)
+        self.assertEqual(current.get_ident(), os.getpid())
+        self.assertEqual(current.get_exitcode(), None)
+
+    def _test(self, q, *args, **kwds):
+        current = self.current_process()
+        q.put(args)
+        q.put(kwds)
+        q.put(current.get_name())
+        if self.TYPE != 'threads':
+            q.put(bytes(current.get_authkey()))
+            q.put(current.pid)
+
+    def test_process(self):
+        q = self.Queue(1)
+        e = self.Event()
+        args = (q, 1, 2)
+        kwargs = {'hello':23, 'bye':2.54}
+        name = 'SomeProcess'
+        p = self.Process(
+            target=self._test, args=args, kwargs=kwargs, name=name
+            )
+        p.set_daemon(True)
+        current = self.current_process()
+
+        if self.TYPE != 'threads':
+            self.assertEquals(p.get_authkey(), current.get_authkey())
+        self.assertEquals(p.is_alive(), False)
+        self.assertEquals(p.is_daemon(), True)
+        self.assertTrue(p not in self.active_children())
+        self.assertTrue(type(self.active_children()) is list)
+        self.assertEqual(p.get_exitcode(), None)
+        
+        p.start()
+        
+        self.assertEquals(p.get_exitcode(), None)
+        self.assertEquals(p.is_alive(), True)
+        self.assertTrue(p in self.active_children())
+        
+        self.assertEquals(q.get(), args[1:])
+        self.assertEquals(q.get(), kwargs)
+        self.assertEquals(q.get(), p.get_name())
+        if self.TYPE != 'threads':
+            self.assertEquals(q.get(), current.get_authkey())
+            self.assertEquals(q.get(), p.pid)
+
+        p.join()
+
+        self.assertEquals(p.get_exitcode(), 0)
+        self.assertEquals(p.is_alive(), False)
+        self.assertTrue(p not in self.active_children())        
+
+    def _test_terminate(self):
+        time.sleep(1000)
+
+    def test_terminate(self):
+        if self.TYPE == 'threads':
+            return
+        
+        p = self.Process(target=self._test_terminate)
+        p.set_daemon(True)
+        p.start()
+
+        self.assertEqual(p.is_alive(), True)
+        self.assertTrue(p in self.active_children())
+        self.assertEqual(p.get_exitcode(), None)
+
+        p.terminate()
+
+        join = TimingWrapper(p.join)
+        self.assertEqual(join(), None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(join.elapsed, 0.0)
+        
+        self.assertEqual(p.is_alive(), False)
+        self.assertTrue(p not in self.active_children())
+
+        p.join()
+
+        # XXX sometimes get p.get_exitcode() == 0 on Windows ...
+        #self.assertEqual(p.get_exitcode(), -signal.SIGTERM)
+
+    def test_cpu_count(self):
+        try:
+            cpus = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
+        except NotImplementedError:
+            cpus = 1
+        self.assertTrue(type(cpus) is int)
+        self.assertTrue(cpus >= 1)
+
+    def test_active_children(self):
+        self.assertEqual(type(self.active_children()), list)
+
+        p = self.Process(target=time.sleep, args=(DELTA,))
+        self.assertTrue(p not in self.active_children())
+        
+        p.start()
+        self.assertTrue(p in self.active_children())
+
+        p.join()
+        self.assertTrue(p not in self.active_children())
+
+    def _test_recursion(self, wconn, id):
+        from multiprocessing import forking
+        wconn.send(id)
+        if len(id) < 2:
+            for i in range(2):
+                p = self.Process(
+                    target=self._test_recursion, args=(wconn, id+[i])
+                    )
+                p.start()
+                p.join()
+
+    def test_recursion(self):
+        rconn, wconn = self.Pipe(duplex=False)
+        self._test_recursion(wconn, [])
+        
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        result = []
+        while rconn.poll():
+            result.append(rconn.recv())
+            
+        expected = [
+            [],
+              [0],
+                [0, 0],
+                [0, 1],
+              [1],
+                [1, 0],
+                [1, 1]
+            ]
+        self.assertEqual(result, expected)
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class _UpperCaser(multiprocessing.Process):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
+        self.child_conn, self.parent_conn = multiprocessing.Pipe()
+
+    def run(self):
+        self.parent_conn.close()
+        for s in iter(self.child_conn.recv, None):
+            self.child_conn.send(s.upper())
+        self.child_conn.close()
+
+    def submit(self, s):
+        assert type(s) is str
+        self.parent_conn.send(s)
+        return self.parent_conn.recv()
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self.parent_conn.send(None)
+        self.parent_conn.close()
+        self.child_conn.close()
+
+class _TestSubclassingProcess(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def test_subclassing(self):
+        uppercaser = _UpperCaser()
+        uppercaser.start()
+        self.assertEqual(uppercaser.submit('hello'), 'HELLO')
+        self.assertEqual(uppercaser.submit('world'), 'WORLD')
+        uppercaser.stop()
+        uppercaser.join()
+        
+#
+#
+#
+
+def queue_empty(q):
+    if hasattr(q, 'empty'):
+        return q.empty()
+    else:
+        return q.qsize() == 0
+
+def queue_full(q, maxsize):
+    if hasattr(q, 'full'):
+        return q.full()
+    else:
+        return q.qsize() == maxsize
+
+
+class _TestQueue(BaseTestCase):
+
+
+    def _test_put(self, queue, child_can_start, parent_can_continue):
+        child_can_start.wait()
+        for i in range(6):
+            queue.get()
+        parent_can_continue.set()
+
+    def test_put(self):
+        MAXSIZE = 6
+        queue = self.Queue(maxsize=MAXSIZE)
+        child_can_start = self.Event()
+        parent_can_continue = self.Event()
+
+        proc = self.Process(
+            target=self._test_put,
+            args=(queue, child_can_start, parent_can_continue)
+            )
+        proc.set_daemon(True)
+        proc.start()
+        
+        self.assertEqual(queue_empty(queue), True)
+        self.assertEqual(queue_full(queue, MAXSIZE), False)
+
+        queue.put(1)
+        queue.put(2, True)
+        queue.put(3, True, None)
+        queue.put(4, False)
+        queue.put(5, False, None)
+        queue.put_nowait(6)
+
+        # the values may be in buffer but not yet in pipe so sleep a bit
+        time.sleep(DELTA)     
+
+        self.assertEqual(queue_empty(queue), False)
+        self.assertEqual(queue_full(queue, MAXSIZE), True)
+
+        put = TimingWrapper(queue.put)
+        put_nowait = TimingWrapper(queue.put_nowait)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Full, put, 7, False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(put.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Full, put, 7, False, None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(put.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Full, put_nowait, 7)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(put_nowait.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Full, put, 7, True, TIMEOUT1)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(put.elapsed, TIMEOUT1)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Full, put, 7, False, TIMEOUT2)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(put.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Full, put, 7, True, timeout=TIMEOUT3)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(put.elapsed, TIMEOUT3)
+
+        child_can_start.set()
+        parent_can_continue.wait()
+
+        self.assertEqual(queue_empty(queue), True)
+        self.assertEqual(queue_full(queue, MAXSIZE), False)
+
+        proc.join()
+
+    def _test_get(self, queue, child_can_start, parent_can_continue):
+        child_can_start.wait()
+        queue.put(1)
+        queue.put(2)
+        queue.put(3)
+        queue.put(4)
+        queue.put(5)
+        parent_can_continue.set()
+        
+    def test_get(self):
+        queue = self.Queue()
+        child_can_start = self.Event()
+        parent_can_continue = self.Event()
+        
+        proc = self.Process(
+            target=self._test_get,
+            args=(queue, child_can_start, parent_can_continue)
+            )
+        proc.set_daemon(True)
+        proc.start()
+        
+        self.assertEqual(queue_empty(queue), True)
+        
+        child_can_start.set()
+        parent_can_continue.wait()
+
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        self.assertEqual(queue_empty(queue), False)
+
+        self.assertEqual(queue.get(), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(queue.get(True, None), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(queue.get(True), 3)
+        self.assertEqual(queue.get(timeout=1), 4)
+        self.assertEqual(queue.get_nowait(), 5)
+        
+        self.assertEqual(queue_empty(queue), True)
+
+        get = TimingWrapper(queue.get)
+        get_nowait = TimingWrapper(queue.get_nowait)
+        
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, get, False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, get, False, None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, get_nowait)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get_nowait.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, get, True, TIMEOUT1)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, TIMEOUT1)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, get, False, TIMEOUT2)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, get, timeout=TIMEOUT3)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, TIMEOUT3)
+
+        proc.join()
+        
+    def _test_fork(self, queue):
+        for i in range(10, 20):
+            queue.put(i)
+        # note that at this point the items may only be buffered, so the
+        # process cannot shutdown until the feeder thread has finished
+        # pushing items onto the pipe.
+
+    def test_fork(self):
+        # Old versions of Queue would fail to create a new feeder
+        # thread for a forked process if the original process had its
+        # own feeder thread.  This test checks that this no longer
+        # happens.
+
+        queue = self.Queue()
+
+        # put items on queue so that main process starts a feeder thread
+        for i in range(10):
+            queue.put(i)
+
+        # wait to make sure thread starts before we fork a new process
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+
+        # fork process
+        p = self.Process(target=self._test_fork, args=(queue,))
+        p.start()
+
+        # check that all expected items are in the queue
+        for i in range(20):
+            self.assertEqual(queue.get(), i)
+        self.assertRaises(Queue.Empty, queue.get, False)
+
+        p.join()
+
+    def test_qsize(self):
+        q = self.Queue()
+        try:
+            self.assertEqual(q.qsize(), 0)
+        except NotImplementedError:
+            return
+        q.put(1)
+        self.assertEqual(q.qsize(), 1)
+        q.put(5)
+        self.assertEqual(q.qsize(), 2)
+        q.get()
+        self.assertEqual(q.qsize(), 1)
+        q.get()
+        self.assertEqual(q.qsize(), 0)
+
+    def _test_task_done(self, q):
+        for obj in iter(q.get, None):
+            time.sleep(DELTA)
+            q.task_done()
+
+    def test_task_done(self):
+        queue = self.JoinableQueue()
+
+        if sys.version_info < (2, 5) and not hasattr(queue, 'task_done'):
+            return
+
+        workers = [self.Process(target=self._test_task_done, args=(queue,))
+                   for i in xrange(4)]
+        
+        for p in workers:
+            p.start()
+
+        for i in xrange(10):
+            queue.put(i)
+
+        queue.join()
+
+        for p in workers:
+            queue.put(None)
+        
+        for p in workers:
+            p.join()
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class _TestLock(BaseTestCase):
+
+    def test_lock(self):
+        lock = self.Lock()
+        self.assertEqual(lock.acquire(), True)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.acquire(False), False)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.release(), None)
+        self.assertRaises((ValueError, threading.ThreadError), lock.release)
+
+    def test_rlock(self):
+        lock = self.RLock()
+        self.assertEqual(lock.acquire(), True)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.acquire(), True)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.acquire(), True)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.release(), None)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.release(), None)
+        self.assertEqual(lock.release(), None)
+        self.assertRaises((AssertionError, RuntimeError), lock.release)
+        
+        
+class _TestSemaphore(BaseTestCase):
+
+    def _test_semaphore(self, sem):
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(2, get_value, sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.acquire(), True)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(1, get_value, sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.acquire(), True)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(0, get_value, sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.acquire(False), False)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(0, get_value, sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.release(), None)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(1, get_value, sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.release(), None)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(2, get_value, sem)
+        
+    def test_semaphore(self):
+        sem = self.Semaphore(2)
+        self._test_semaphore(sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.release(), None)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(3, get_value, sem)
+        self.assertEqual(sem.release(), None)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(4, get_value, sem)
+
+    def test_bounded_semaphore(self):
+        sem = self.BoundedSemaphore(2)
+        self._test_semaphore(sem)
+        # Currently fails on OS/X
+        #if HAVE_GETVALUE:
+        #    self.assertRaises(ValueError, sem.release)
+        #    self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(2, get_value, sem)
+
+    def test_timeout(self):
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            return
+
+        sem = self.Semaphore(0)
+        acquire = TimingWrapper(sem.acquire)
+
+        self.assertEqual(acquire(False), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(acquire.elapsed, 0.0)
+
+        self.assertEqual(acquire(False, None), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(acquire.elapsed, 0.0)
+
+        self.assertEqual(acquire(False, TIMEOUT1), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(acquire.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertEqual(acquire(True, TIMEOUT2), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(acquire.elapsed, TIMEOUT2)
+
+        self.assertEqual(acquire(timeout=TIMEOUT3), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(acquire.elapsed, TIMEOUT3)
+
+
+class _TestCondition(BaseTestCase):
+    
+    def f(self, cond, sleeping, woken, timeout=None):
+        cond.acquire()
+        sleeping.release()
+        cond.wait(timeout)
+        woken.release()
+        cond.release()
+    
+    def check_invariant(self, cond):
+        # this is only supposed to succeed when there are no sleepers
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            try:
+                sleepers = (cond._sleeping_count.get_value() -
+                            cond._woken_count.get_value())
+                self.assertEqual(sleepers, 0)
+                self.assertEqual(cond._wait_semaphore.get_value(), 0)
+            except NotImplementedError:
+                pass
+            
+    def test_notify(self):
+        cond = self.Condition()
+        sleeping = self.Semaphore(0)
+        woken = self.Semaphore(0)
+        
+        p = self.Process(target=self.f, args=(cond, sleeping, woken))
+        p.set_daemon(True)
+        p.start()
+
+        p = threading.Thread(target=self.f, args=(cond, sleeping, woken))
+        p.setDaemon(True)
+        p.start()
+        
+        # wait for both children to start sleeping
+        sleeping.acquire()
+        sleeping.acquire()
+        
+        # check no process/thread has woken up
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(0, get_value, woken)
+
+        # wake up one process/thread
+        cond.acquire()
+        cond.notify()
+        cond.release()
+        
+        # check one process/thread has woken up
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(1, get_value, woken)
+
+        # wake up another
+        cond.acquire()
+        cond.notify()
+        cond.release()
+        
+        # check other has woken up
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(2, get_value, woken)
+        
+        # check state is not mucked up
+        self.check_invariant(cond)
+        p.join()
+        
+    def test_notify_all(self):
+        cond = self.Condition()
+        sleeping = self.Semaphore(0)
+        woken = self.Semaphore(0)
+
+        # start some threads/processes which will timeout
+        for i in range(3):
+            p = self.Process(target=self.f,
+                             args=(cond, sleeping, woken, TIMEOUT1))
+            p.set_daemon(True)
+            p.start()
+
+            t = threading.Thread(target=self.f,
+                                 args=(cond, sleeping, woken, TIMEOUT1))
+            t.setDaemon(True)
+            t.start()
+
+        # wait for them all to sleep
+        for i in xrange(6):
+            sleeping.acquire()
+
+        # check they have all timed out
+        for i in xrange(6):
+            woken.acquire()
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(0, get_value, woken)
+
+        # check state is not mucked up
+        self.check_invariant(cond)
+
+        # start some more threads/processes
+        for i in range(3):
+            p = self.Process(target=self.f, args=(cond, sleeping, woken))
+            p.set_daemon(True)
+            p.start()
+            
+            t = threading.Thread(target=self.f, args=(cond, sleeping, woken))
+            t.setDaemon(True)
+            t.start()
+            
+        # wait for them to all sleep
+        for i in xrange(6):
+            sleeping.acquire()
+            
+        # check no process/thread has woken up
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(0, get_value, woken)
+
+        # wake them all up
+        cond.acquire()
+        cond.notify_all()
+        cond.release()
+
+        # check they have all woken
+        time.sleep(DELTA)
+        self.assertReturnsIfImplemented(6, get_value, woken)
+
+        # check state is not mucked up
+        self.check_invariant(cond)
+
+    def test_timeout(self):
+        cond = self.Condition()
+        wait = TimingWrapper(cond.wait)
+        cond.acquire()
+        res = wait(TIMEOUT1)
+        cond.release()
+        self.assertEqual(res, None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(wait.elapsed, TIMEOUT1)
+
+        
+class _TestEvent(BaseTestCase):
+
+    def _test_event(self, event):
+        time.sleep(TIMEOUT2)
+        event.set()
+
+    def test_event(self):
+        event = self.Event()
+        wait = TimingWrapper(event.wait)
+        
+        # Removed temporaily, due to API shear, this does not 
+        # work with threading._Event objects. is_set == isSet
+        #self.assertEqual(event.is_set(), False)
+        
+        self.assertEqual(wait(0.0), None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(wait.elapsed, 0.0)
+        self.assertEqual(wait(TIMEOUT1), None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(wait.elapsed, TIMEOUT1)
+
+        event.set()
+
+        # See note above on the API differences
+        # self.assertEqual(event.is_set(), True)
+        self.assertEqual(wait(), None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(wait.elapsed, 0.0)
+        self.assertEqual(wait(TIMEOUT1), None)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(wait.elapsed, 0.0)
+        # self.assertEqual(event.is_set(), True)
+
+        event.clear()
+
+        #self.assertEqual(event.is_set(), False)
+
+        self.Process(target=self._test_event, args=(event,)).start()
+        self.assertEqual(wait(), None)
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class _TestValue(BaseTestCase):
+
+    codes_values = [
+        ('i', 4343, 24234),
+        ('d', 3.625, -4.25),
+        ('h', -232, 234),
+        ('c', latin('x'), latin('y'))
+        ]
+
+    def _test(self, values):
+        for sv, cv in zip(values, self.codes_values):
+            sv.value = cv[2]
+            
+        
+    def test_value(self, raw=False):
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            return
+
+        if raw:
+            values = [self.RawValue(code, value)
+                      for code, value, _ in self.codes_values]
+        else:
+            values = [self.Value(code, value)
+                      for code, value, _ in self.codes_values]
+            
+        for sv, cv in zip(values, self.codes_values):
+            self.assertEqual(sv.value, cv[1])
+        
+        proc = self.Process(target=self._test, args=(values,))
+        proc.start()
+        proc.join()
+
+        for sv, cv in zip(values, self.codes_values):
+            self.assertEqual(sv.value, cv[2])
+
+    def test_rawvalue(self):
+        self.test_value(raw=True)
+
+    def test_getobj_getlock(self):
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            return
+
+        val1 = self.Value('i', 5)
+        lock1 = val1.get_lock()
+        obj1 = val1.get_obj()
+
+        val2 = self.Value('i', 5, lock=None)
+        lock2 = val2.get_lock()
+        obj2 = val2.get_obj()
+
+        lock = self.Lock()
+        val3 = self.Value('i', 5, lock=lock)
+        lock3 = val3.get_lock()
+        obj3 = val3.get_obj()
+        self.assertEqual(lock, lock3)
+        
+        arr4 = self.RawValue('i', 5)
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(arr4, 'get_lock'))
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(arr4, 'get_obj'))
+
+
+class _TestArray(BaseTestCase):
+
+    def f(self, seq):
+        for i in range(1, len(seq)):
+            seq[i] += seq[i-1]
+
+    def test_array(self, raw=False):
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            return
+
+        seq = [680, 626, 934, 821, 150, 233, 548, 982, 714, 831]
+        if raw:
+            arr = self.RawArray('i', seq)
+        else:
+            arr = self.Array('i', seq)
+        
+        self.assertEqual(len(arr), len(seq))
+        self.assertEqual(arr[3], seq[3])
+        self.assertEqual(list(arr[2:7]), list(seq[2:7]))
+        
+        arr[4:8] = seq[4:8] = array.array('i', [1, 2, 3, 4])
+        
+        self.assertEqual(list(arr[:]), seq)
+        
+        self.f(seq)
+        
+        p = self.Process(target=self.f, args=(arr,))
+        p.start()
+        p.join()
+        
+        self.assertEqual(list(arr[:]), seq)
+        
+    def test_rawarray(self):
+        self.test_array(raw=True)
+        
+    def test_getobj_getlock_obj(self):
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            return
+
+        arr1 = self.Array('i', range(10))
+        lock1 = arr1.get_lock()
+        obj1 = arr1.get_obj()
+
+        arr2 = self.Array('i', range(10), lock=None)
+        lock2 = arr2.get_lock()
+        obj2 = arr2.get_obj()
+
+        lock = self.Lock()
+        arr3 = self.Array('i', range(10), lock=lock)
+        lock3 = arr3.get_lock()
+        obj3 = arr3.get_obj()
+        self.assertEqual(lock, lock3)
+        
+        arr4 = self.RawArray('i', range(10))
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(arr4, 'get_lock'))
+        self.assertFalse(hasattr(arr4, 'get_obj'))
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class _TestContainers(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('manager',)
+
+    def test_list(self):
+        a = self.list(range(10))
+        self.assertEqual(a[:], range(10))
+        
+        b = self.list()
+        self.assertEqual(b[:], [])
+        
+        b.extend(range(5))
+        self.assertEqual(b[:], range(5))
+        
+        self.assertEqual(b[2], 2)
+        self.assertEqual(b[2:10], [2,3,4])
+
+        b *= 2
+        self.assertEqual(b[:], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
+
+        self.assertEqual(b + [5, 6], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
+
+        self.assertEqual(a[:], range(10))
+
+        d = [a, b]
+        e = self.list(d)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            e[:],
+            [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4]]
+            )
+        
+        f = self.list([a])
+        a.append('hello')
+        self.assertEqual(f[:], [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 'hello']])
+
+    def test_dict(self):
+        d = self.dict()
+        indices = range(65, 70)
+        for i in indices:
+            d[i] = chr(i)
+        self.assertEqual(d.copy(), dict((i, chr(i)) for i in indices))
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(d.keys()), indices)
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(d.values()), [chr(i) for i in indices])
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(d.items()), [(i, chr(i)) for i in indices])
+        
+    def test_namespace(self):
+        n = self.Namespace()
+        n.name = 'Bob'
+        n.job = 'Builder'
+        n._hidden = 'hidden'
+        self.assertEqual((n.name, n.job), ('Bob', 'Builder'))
+        del n.job
+        self.assertEqual(str(n), "Namespace(name='Bob')")
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(n, 'name'))
+        self.assertTrue(not hasattr(n, 'job'))
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+def sqr(x, wait=0.0):
+    time.sleep(wait)
+    return x*x
+
+class _TestPool(BaseTestCase):
+
+    def test_apply(self):
+        papply = self.pool.apply
+        self.assertEqual(papply(sqr, (5,)), sqr(5))
+        self.assertEqual(papply(sqr, (), {'x':3}), sqr(x=3))
+
+    def test_map(self):
+        pmap = self.pool.map
+        self.assertEqual(pmap(sqr, range(10)), map(sqr, range(10)))
+        self.assertEqual(pmap(sqr, range(100), chunksize=20),
+                         map(sqr, range(100)))
+        
+    def test_async(self):
+        res = self.pool.apply_async(sqr, (7, TIMEOUT1,))
+        get = TimingWrapper(res.get)
+        self.assertEqual(get(), 49)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, TIMEOUT1)
+
+    def test_async_timeout(self):
+        res = self.pool.apply_async(sqr, (6, TIMEOUT2 + 0.2))
+        get = TimingWrapper(res.get)
+        self.assertRaises(multiprocessing.TimeoutError, get, timeout=TIMEOUT2)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(get.elapsed, TIMEOUT2)
+
+    def test_imap(self):
+        it = self.pool.imap(sqr, range(10))
+        self.assertEqual(list(it), map(sqr, range(10)))
+
+        it = self.pool.imap(sqr, range(10))
+        for i in range(10):
+            self.assertEqual(it.next(), i*i)
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, it.next)
+
+        it = self.pool.imap(sqr, range(1000), chunksize=100)
+        for i in range(1000):
+            self.assertEqual(it.next(), i*i)
+        self.assertRaises(StopIteration, it.next)
+
+    def test_imap_unordered(self):
+        it = self.pool.imap_unordered(sqr, range(1000))
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(it), map(sqr, range(1000)))
+
+        it = self.pool.imap_unordered(sqr, range(1000), chunksize=53)
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(it), map(sqr, range(1000)))
+
+    def test_make_pool(self):
+        p = multiprocessing.Pool(3)
+        self.assertEqual(3, len(p._pool))
+        p.close()
+        p.join()
+
+    def test_terminate(self):
+        if self.TYPE == 'manager':
+            # On Unix a forked process increfs each shared object to
+            # which its parent process held a reference.  If the
+            # forked process gets terminated then there is likely to
+            # be a reference leak.  So to prevent
+            # _TestZZZNumberOfObjects from failing we skip this test
+            # when using a manager.
+            return
+
+        result = self.pool.map_async(
+            time.sleep, [0.1 for i in range(10000)], chunksize=1
+            )
+        self.pool.terminate()
+        join = TimingWrapper(self.pool.join)
+        join()
+        self.assertTrue(join.elapsed < 0.2)
+
+#
+# Test that manager has expected number of shared objects left
+#
+
+class _TestZZZNumberOfObjects(BaseTestCase):
+    # Because test cases are sorted alphabetically, this one will get
+    # run after all the other tests for the manager.  It tests that
+    # there have been no "reference leaks" for the manager's shared
+    # objects.  Note the comment in _TestPool.test_terminate().
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('manager',)
+
+    def test_number_of_objects(self):
+        EXPECTED_NUMBER = 1                # the pool object is still alive
+        multiprocessing.active_children()  # discard dead process objs
+        gc.collect()                       # do garbage collection
+        refs = self.manager._number_of_objects()
+        if refs != EXPECTED_NUMBER:
+            print self.manager._debugInfo()
+
+        self.assertEqual(refs, EXPECTED_NUMBER)
+
+#
+# Test of creating a customized manager class
+#
+
+from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager, BaseProxy, RemoteError
+    
+class FooBar(object):
+    def f(self):
+        return 'f()'
+    def g(self):
+        raise ValueError
+    def _h(self):
+        return '_h()'
+    
+def baz():
+    for i in xrange(10):
+        yield i*i
+
+class IteratorProxy(BaseProxy):
+    _exposed_ = ('next', '__next__')
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+    def next(self):
+        return self._callmethod('next')
+    def __next__(self):
+        return self._callmethod('__next__')
+
+class MyManager(BaseManager):
+    pass
+
+MyManager.register('Foo', callable=FooBar)
+MyManager.register('Bar', callable=FooBar, exposed=('f', '_h'))
+MyManager.register('baz', callable=baz, proxytype=IteratorProxy)
+
+
+class _TestMyManager(BaseTestCase):
+    
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('manager',)
+
+    def test_mymanager(self):
+        manager = MyManager()
+        manager.start()
+        
+        foo = manager.Foo()
+        bar = manager.Bar()
+        baz = manager.baz()
+        
+        foo_methods = [name for name in ('f', 'g', '_h') if hasattr(foo, name)]
+        bar_methods = [name for name in ('f', 'g', '_h') if hasattr(bar, name)]
+        
+        self.assertEqual(foo_methods, ['f', 'g'])
+        self.assertEqual(bar_methods, ['f', '_h'])
+        
+        self.assertEqual(foo.f(), 'f()')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, foo.g)
+        self.assertEqual(foo._callmethod('f'), 'f()')
+        self.assertRaises(RemoteError, foo._callmethod, '_h')
+        
+        self.assertEqual(bar.f(), 'f()')
+        self.assertEqual(bar._h(), '_h()')
+        self.assertEqual(bar._callmethod('f'), 'f()')
+        self.assertEqual(bar._callmethod('_h'), '_h()')
+        
+        self.assertEqual(list(baz), [i*i for i in range(10)])
+        
+        manager.shutdown()
+        
+#
+# Test of connecting to a remote server and using xmlrpclib for serialization
+#
+
+_queue = Queue.Queue()
+def get_queue():
+    return _queue
+
+class QueueManager(BaseManager):
+    '''manager class used by server process'''
+QueueManager.register('get_queue', callable=get_queue)
+
+class QueueManager2(BaseManager):
+    '''manager class which specifies the same interface as QueueManager'''
+QueueManager2.register('get_queue')
+
+
+SERIALIZER = 'xmlrpclib'
+
+class _TestRemoteManager(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('manager',)
+    
+    def _putter(self, address, authkey):
+        manager = QueueManager2(
+            address=address, authkey=authkey, serializer=SERIALIZER
+            )
+        manager.connect()
+        queue = manager.get_queue()
+        queue.put(('hello world', None, True, 2.25))
+
+    def test_remote(self):
+        authkey = os.urandom(32)
+
+        manager = QueueManager(
+            address=('localhost', 0), authkey=authkey, serializer=SERIALIZER
+            )
+        manager.start()
+
+        p = self.Process(target=self._putter, args=(manager.address, authkey))
+        p.start()
+        
+        manager2 = QueueManager2(
+            address=manager.address, authkey=authkey, serializer=SERIALIZER
+            )
+        manager2.connect()
+        queue = manager2.get_queue()
+        
+        # Note that xmlrpclib will deserialize object as a list not a tuple
+        self.assertEqual(queue.get(), ['hello world', None, True, 2.25])
+
+        # Because we are using xmlrpclib for serialization instead of
+        # pickle this will cause a serialization error.
+        self.assertRaises(Exception, queue.put, time.sleep)
+
+        # Make queue finalizer run before the server is stopped
+        del queue
+        manager.shutdown()
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+SENTINEL = latin('')
+
+class _TestConnection(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes', 'threads')
+
+    def _echo(self, conn):
+        for msg in iter(conn.recv_bytes, SENTINEL):
+            conn.send_bytes(msg)
+        conn.close()
+
+    def test_connection(self):
+        conn, child_conn = self.Pipe()
+        
+        p = self.Process(target=self._echo, args=(child_conn,))
+        p.set_daemon(True)
+        p.start()
+
+        seq = [1, 2.25, None]
+        msg = latin('hello world')
+        longmsg = msg * 10
+        arr = array.array('i', range(4))
+
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            self.assertEqual(type(conn.fileno()), int)
+
+        self.assertEqual(conn.send(seq), None)
+        self.assertEqual(conn.recv(), seq)
+
+        self.assertEqual(conn.send_bytes(msg), None)
+        self.assertEqual(conn.recv_bytes(), msg)
+
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            buffer = array.array('i', [0]*10)
+            expected = list(arr) + [0] * (10 - len(arr))
+            self.assertEqual(conn.send_bytes(arr), None)
+            self.assertEqual(conn.recv_bytes_into(buffer),
+                             len(arr) * buffer.itemsize)
+            self.assertEqual(list(buffer), expected)
+
+            buffer = array.array('i', [0]*10)
+            expected = [0] * 3 + list(arr) + [0] * (10 - 3 - len(arr))
+            self.assertEqual(conn.send_bytes(arr), None)
+            self.assertEqual(conn.recv_bytes_into(buffer, 3 * buffer.itemsize),
+                             len(arr) * buffer.itemsize)
+            self.assertEqual(list(buffer), expected)
+
+            buffer = bytearray(latin(' ' * 40))
+            self.assertEqual(conn.send_bytes(longmsg), None)
+            try:
+                res = conn.recv_bytes_into(buffer)
+            except multiprocessing.BufferTooShort, e:
+                self.assertEqual(e.args, (longmsg,))
+            else:
+                self.fail('expected BufferTooShort, got %s' % res)
+
+        poll = TimingWrapper(conn.poll)
+
+        self.assertEqual(poll(), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(poll.elapsed, 0)
+
+        self.assertEqual(poll(TIMEOUT1), False)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(poll.elapsed, TIMEOUT1)
+
+        conn.send(None)
+
+        self.assertEqual(poll(TIMEOUT1), True)
+        self.assertTimingAlmostEqual(poll.elapsed, 0)
+        
+        self.assertEqual(conn.recv(), None)
+
+        really_big_msg = latin('X') * (1024 * 1024 * 16)   # 16Mb
+        conn.send_bytes(really_big_msg)
+        self.assertEqual(conn.recv_bytes(), really_big_msg)
+        
+        conn.send_bytes(SENTINEL)                          # tell child to quit
+        child_conn.close()
+
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            self.assertEqual(conn.readable, True)
+            self.assertEqual(conn.writable, True)
+            self.assertRaises(EOFError, conn.recv)
+            self.assertRaises(EOFError, conn.recv_bytes)
+
+        p.join()
+        
+    def test_duplex_false(self):
+        reader, writer = self.Pipe(duplex=False)
+        self.assertEqual(writer.send(1), None)
+        self.assertEqual(reader.recv(), 1)
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            self.assertEqual(reader.readable, True)
+            self.assertEqual(reader.writable, False)
+            self.assertEqual(writer.readable, False)
+            self.assertEqual(writer.writable, True)
+            self.assertRaises(IOError, reader.send, 2)
+            self.assertRaises(IOError, writer.recv)
+            self.assertRaises(IOError, writer.poll)
+
+    def test_spawn_close(self):
+        # We test that a pipe connection can be closed by parent
+        # process immediately after child is spawned.  On Windows this
+        # would have sometimes failed on old versions because
+        # child_conn would be closed before the child got a chance to
+        # duplicate it.
+        conn, child_conn = self.Pipe()
+        
+        p = self.Process(target=self._echo, args=(child_conn,))
+        p.start()
+        child_conn.close()    # this might complete before child initializes
+
+        msg = latin('hello')
+        conn.send_bytes(msg)
+        self.assertEqual(conn.recv_bytes(), msg)
+
+        conn.send_bytes(SENTINEL)
+        conn.close()
+        p.join()
+
+    def test_sendbytes(self):
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            return
+
+        msg = latin('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')
+        a, b = self.Pipe()
+        
+        a.send_bytes(msg)
+        self.assertEqual(b.recv_bytes(), msg)
+
+        a.send_bytes(msg, 5)
+        self.assertEqual(b.recv_bytes(), msg[5:])
+
+        a.send_bytes(msg, 7, 8)
+        self.assertEqual(b.recv_bytes(), msg[7:7+8])
+
+        a.send_bytes(msg, 26)
+        self.assertEqual(b.recv_bytes(), latin(''))
+
+        a.send_bytes(msg, 26, 0)
+        self.assertEqual(b.recv_bytes(), latin(''))
+
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, a.send_bytes, msg, 27)
+        
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, a.send_bytes, msg, 22, 5)
+        
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, a.send_bytes, msg, 26, 1)
+
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, a.send_bytes, msg, -1)
+
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, a.send_bytes, msg, 4, -1)
+        
+
+class _TestListenerClient(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes', 'threads')
+
+    def _test(self, address):
+        conn = self.connection.Client(address)
+        conn.send('hello')
+        conn.close()
+
+    def test_listener_client(self):        
+        for family in self.connection.families:
+            l = self.connection.Listener(family=family)
+            p = self.Process(target=self._test, args=(l.address,))
+            p.set_daemon(True)
+            p.start()
+            conn = l.accept()
+            self.assertEqual(conn.recv(), 'hello')
+            p.join()
+            l.close()
+
+#
+# Test of sending connection and socket objects between processes
+#
+
+class _TestPicklingConnections(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def _listener(self, conn, families):
+        for fam in families:
+            l = self.connection.Listener(family=fam)
+            conn.send(l.address)
+            new_conn = l.accept()
+            conn.send(new_conn)
+
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            l = socket.socket()
+            l.bind(('localhost', 0))
+            conn.send(l.getsockname())
+            l.listen(1)
+            new_conn, addr = l.accept()
+            conn.send(new_conn)
+        
+        conn.recv()
+
+    def _remote(self, conn):
+        for (address, msg) in iter(conn.recv, None):
+            client = self.connection.Client(address)
+            client.send(msg.upper())
+            client.close()
+
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            address, msg = conn.recv()
+            client = socket.socket()
+            client.connect(address)
+            client.sendall(msg.upper())
+            client.close()
+
+        conn.close()
+
+    def test_pickling(self):
+        try:
+            multiprocessing.allow_connection_pickling()
+        except ImportError:
+            return
+        
+        families = self.connection.families
+
+        lconn, lconn0 = self.Pipe()
+        lp = self.Process(target=self._listener, args=(lconn0, families))
+        lp.start()
+        lconn0.close()
+
+        rconn, rconn0 = self.Pipe()
+        rp = self.Process(target=self._remote, args=(rconn0,))
+        rp.start()
+        rconn0.close()
+
+        for fam in families:
+            msg = ('This connection uses family %s' % fam).encode('ascii')
+            address = lconn.recv()
+            rconn.send((address, msg))
+            new_conn = lconn.recv()
+            self.assertEqual(new_conn.recv(), msg.upper())
+            
+        rconn.send(None)
+
+        if self.TYPE == 'processes':
+            msg = latin('This connection uses a normal socket')
+            address = lconn.recv()
+            rconn.send((address, msg))
+            if hasattr(socket, 'fromfd'):
+                new_conn = lconn.recv()
+                self.assertEqual(new_conn.recv(100), msg.upper())
+            else:
+                # XXX On Windows with Py2.6 need to backport fromfd()
+                discard = lconn.recv_bytes()
+                
+        lconn.send(None)
+        
+        rconn.close()
+        lconn.close()
+        
+        lp.join()
+        rp.join()
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class _TestHeap(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def test_heap(self):
+        iterations = 5000
+        maxblocks = 50
+        blocks = []
+
+        # create and destroy lots of blocks of different sizes
+        for i in xrange(iterations):
+            size = int(random.lognormvariate(0, 1) * 1000)
+            b = multiprocessing.heap.BufferWrapper(size)
+            blocks.append(b)
+            if len(blocks) > maxblocks:
+                i = random.randrange(maxblocks)
+                del blocks[i]
+
+        # get the heap object
+        heap = multiprocessing.heap.BufferWrapper._heap
+
+        # verify the state of the heap
+        all = []
+        occupied = 0
+        for L in heap._len_to_seq.values():
+            for arena, start, stop in L:
+                all.append((heap._arenas.index(arena), start, stop,
+                            stop-start, 'free'))
+        for arena, start, stop in heap._allocated_blocks:
+            all.append((heap._arenas.index(arena), start, stop,
+                        stop-start, 'occupied'))
+            occupied += (stop-start)
+
+        all.sort()
+
+        for i in range(len(all)-1):
+            (arena, start, stop) = all[i][:3]
+            (narena, nstart, nstop) = all[i+1][:3]
+            self.assertTrue((arena != narena and nstart == 0) or
+                            (stop == nstart))
+            
+#
+#
+#
+
+try:
+    from ctypes import Structure, Value, copy, c_int, c_double
+except ImportError:
+    Structure = object
+    c_int = c_double = None
+
+class _Foo(Structure):
+    _fields_ = [
+        ('x', c_int),
+        ('y', c_double)
+        ]
+
+class _TestSharedCTypes(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def _double(self, x, y, foo, arr, string):
+        x.value *= 2
+        y.value *= 2
+        foo.x *= 2
+        foo.y *= 2
+        string.value *= 2
+        for i in range(len(arr)):
+            arr[i] *= 2
+
+    def test_sharedctypes(self, lock=False):
+        if c_int is None:
+            return
+        
+        x = Value('i', 7, lock=lock)
+        y = Value(ctypes.c_double, 1.0/3.0, lock=lock)
+        foo = Value(_Foo, 3, 2, lock=lock)
+        arr = Array('d', range(10), lock=lock)
+        string = Array('c', 20, lock=lock)
+        string.value = 'hello'
+
+        p = self.Process(target=self._double, args=(x, y, foo, arr, string))
+        p.start()
+        p.join()
+
+        self.assertEqual(x.value, 14)
+        self.assertAlmostEqual(y.value, 2.0/3.0)
+        self.assertEqual(foo.x, 6)
+        self.assertAlmostEqual(foo.y, 4.0)
+        for i in range(10):
+            self.assertAlmostEqual(arr[i], i*2)
+        self.assertEqual(string.value, latin('hellohello'))
+
+    def test_synchronize(self):
+        self.test_sharedctypes(lock=True)
+
+    def test_copy(self):
+        if c_int is None:
+            return
+
+        foo = _Foo(2, 5.0)
+        bar = copy(foo)
+        foo.x = 0
+        foo.y = 0
+        self.assertEqual(bar.x, 2)
+        self.assertAlmostEqual(bar.y, 5.0)
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+class _TestFinalize(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def _test_finalize(self, conn):
+        class Foo(object):
+            pass
+
+        a = Foo()
+        util.Finalize(a, conn.send, args=('a',))
+        del a           # triggers callback for a
+
+        b = Foo()
+        close_b = util.Finalize(b, conn.send, args=('b',))    
+        close_b()       # triggers callback for b
+        close_b()       # does nothing because callback has already been called
+        del b           # does nothing because callback has already been called
+
+        c = Foo()
+        util.Finalize(c, conn.send, args=('c',))
+
+        d10 = Foo()
+        util.Finalize(d10, conn.send, args=('d10',), exitpriority=1)
+
+        d01 = Foo()
+        util.Finalize(d01, conn.send, args=('d01',), exitpriority=0)
+        d02 = Foo()
+        util.Finalize(d02, conn.send, args=('d02',), exitpriority=0)
+        d03 = Foo()
+        util.Finalize(d03, conn.send, args=('d03',), exitpriority=0)
+
+        util.Finalize(None, conn.send, args=('e',), exitpriority=-10)
+
+        util.Finalize(None, conn.send, args=('STOP',), exitpriority=-100)
+
+        # call mutliprocessing's cleanup function then exit process without
+        # garbage collecting locals
+        util._exit_function()
+        conn.close()
+        os._exit(0)
+
+    def test_finalize(self):
+        conn, child_conn = self.Pipe()
+        
+        p = self.Process(target=self._test_finalize, args=(child_conn,))
+        p.start()
+        p.join()
+
+        result = [obj for obj in iter(conn.recv, 'STOP')]
+        self.assertEqual(result, ['a', 'b', 'd10', 'd03', 'd02', 'd01', 'e'])
+
+#
+# Test that from ... import * works for each module
+#
+
+class _TestImportStar(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def test_import(self):
+        modules = (
+            'multiprocessing', 'multiprocessing.connection',
+            'multiprocessing.heap', 'multiprocessing.managers',
+            'multiprocessing.pool', 'multiprocessing.process',
+            'multiprocessing.reduction', 'multiprocessing.sharedctypes',
+            'multiprocessing.synchronize', 'multiprocessing.util'
+            )
+        
+        for name in modules:
+            __import__(name)
+            mod = sys.modules[name]
+            
+            for attr in getattr(mod, '__all__', ()):
+                self.assertTrue(
+                    hasattr(mod, attr),
+                    '%r does not have attribute %r' % (mod, attr)
+                    )
+
+#
+# Quick test that logging works -- does not test logging output
+#
+
+class _TestLogging(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    def test_enable_logging(self):
+        logger = multiprocessing.get_logger()
+        logger.setLevel(util.SUBWARNING)
+        self.assertTrue(logger is not None)
+        logger.debug('this will not be printed')
+        logger.info('nor will this')
+        logger.setLevel(LOG_LEVEL)
+
+    def _test_level(self, conn):
+        logger = multiprocessing.get_logger()
+        conn.send(logger.getEffectiveLevel())
+
+    def test_level(self):
+        LEVEL1 = 32
+        LEVEL2 = 37
+        
+        logger = multiprocessing.get_logger()
+        root_logger = logging.getLogger()
+        root_level = root_logger.level
+
+        reader, writer = multiprocessing.Pipe(duplex=False)
+
+        logger.setLevel(LEVEL1)
+        self.Process(target=self._test_level, args=(writer,)).start()
+        self.assertEqual(LEVEL1, reader.recv())
+
+        logger.setLevel(logging.NOTSET)
+        root_logger.setLevel(LEVEL2)
+        self.Process(target=self._test_level, args=(writer,)).start()
+        self.assertEqual(LEVEL2, reader.recv())
+
+        root_logger.setLevel(root_level)
+        logger.setLevel(level=LOG_LEVEL)
+
+#
+# Functions used to create test cases from the base ones in this module
+#
+
+def get_attributes(Source, names):
+    d = {}
+    for name in names:
+        obj = getattr(Source, name)
+        if type(obj) == type(get_attributes):
+            obj = staticmethod(obj)
+        d[name] = obj
+    return d
+
+def create_test_cases(Mixin, type):
+    result = {}
+    glob = globals()
+    Type = type[0].upper() + type[1:]
+
+    for name in glob.keys():
+        if name.startswith('_Test'):
+            base = glob[name]
+            if type in base.ALLOWED_TYPES:
+                newname = 'With' + Type + name[1:]
+                class Temp(base, unittest.TestCase, Mixin):
+                    pass
+                result[newname] = Temp
+                Temp.__name__ = newname
+                Temp.__module__ = Mixin.__module__
+    return result
+
+#
+# Create test cases
+#
+
+class ProcessesMixin(object):
+    TYPE = 'processes'
+    Process = multiprocessing.Process
+    locals().update(get_attributes(multiprocessing, (
+        'Queue', 'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore',
+        'Condition', 'Event', 'Value', 'Array', 'RawValue',
+        'RawArray', 'current_process', 'active_children', 'Pipe',
+        'connection', 'JoinableQueue'
+        )))
+
+testcases_processes = create_test_cases(ProcessesMixin, type='processes')
+globals().update(testcases_processes)
+
+
+class ManagerMixin(object):
+    TYPE = 'manager'
+    Process = multiprocessing.Process
+    manager = object.__new__(multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager)
+    locals().update(get_attributes(manager, (
+        'Queue', 'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore', 
+       'Condition', 'Event', 'Value', 'Array', 'list', 'dict',
+        'Namespace', 'JoinableQueue'
+        )))
+
+testcases_manager = create_test_cases(ManagerMixin, type='manager')
+globals().update(testcases_manager)
+
+
+class ThreadsMixin(object):
+    TYPE = 'threads'
+    Process = multiprocessing.dummy.Process
+    locals().update(get_attributes(multiprocessing.dummy, (
+        'Queue', 'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore',
+        'Condition', 'Event', 'Value', 'Array', 'current_process',
+        'active_children', 'Pipe', 'connection', 'dict', 'list',
+        'Namespace', 'JoinableQueue'
+        )))
+
+testcases_threads = create_test_cases(ThreadsMixin, type='threads')
+globals().update(testcases_threads)
+
+#
+#
+#
+
+def test_main(run=None):
+    if run is None:
+        from test.test_support import run_unittest as run
+
+    util.get_temp_dir()     # creates temp directory for use by all processes
+    
+    multiprocessing.get_logger().setLevel(LOG_LEVEL)
+
+    ProcessesMixin.pool = multiprocessing.Pool(4)
+    ThreadsMixin.pool = multiprocessing.dummy.Pool(4)
+    ManagerMixin.manager.__init__()
+    ManagerMixin.manager.start()
+    ManagerMixin.pool = ManagerMixin.manager.Pool(4)
+
+    testcases = (
+        sorted(testcases_processes.values(), key=lambda tc:tc.__name__) +
+        sorted(testcases_threads.values(), key=lambda tc:tc.__name__) +
+        sorted(testcases_manager.values(), key=lambda tc:tc.__name__)
+        )
+
+    loadTestsFromTestCase = unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase
+    suite = unittest.TestSuite(loadTestsFromTestCase(tc) for tc in testcases)
+    run(suite)
+
+    ThreadsMixin.pool.terminate()
+    ProcessesMixin.pool.terminate()
+    ManagerMixin.pool.terminate()
+    ManagerMixin.manager.shutdown()
+    
+    del ProcessesMixin.pool, ThreadsMixin.pool, ManagerMixin.pool
+
+def main():
+    test_main(unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h b/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e2f7c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h
@@ -0,0 +1,515 @@
+/*
+ * Definition of a `Connection` type.  
+ * Used by `socket_connection.c` and `pipe_connection.c`.
+ *
+ * connection.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+ */
+
+#ifndef CONNECTION_H
+#define CONNECTION_H
+
+/*
+ * Read/write flags
+ */
+
+#define READABLE 1
+#define WRITABLE 2
+
+#define CHECK_READABLE(self) \
+    if (!(self->flags & READABLE)) { \
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError, "connection is write-only"); \
+        return NULL; \
+    }
+
+#define CHECK_WRITABLE(self) \
+    if (!(self->flags & WRITABLE)) { \
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError, "connection is read-only"); \
+        return NULL; \
+    }
+
+/*
+ * Allocation and deallocation
+ */
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+	ConnectionObject *self;
+	HANDLE handle;
+	BOOL readable = TRUE, writable = TRUE;
+
+	static char *kwlist[] = {"handle", "readable", "writable", NULL};
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, F_HANDLE "|ii", kwlist, 
+					 &handle, &readable, &writable))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE || (Py_ssize_t)handle < 0) {
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_IOError, "invalid handle %" 
+			     PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T "d", (Py_ssize_t)handle);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (!readable && !writable) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, 
+				"either readable or writable must be true");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	self = PyObject_New(ConnectionObject, type);
+	if (self == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+
+	self->weakreflist = NULL;
+	self->handle = handle;
+	self->flags = 0;
+
+	if (readable)
+		self->flags |= READABLE;
+	if (writable)
+		self->flags |= WRITABLE;
+	assert(self->flags >= 1 && self->flags <= 3);
+
+	return (PyObject*)self;
+}
+
+static void
+connection_dealloc(ConnectionObject* self)
+{
+	if (self->weakreflist != NULL)
+		PyObject_ClearWeakRefs((PyObject*)self);
+
+	if (self->handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+		Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+		CLOSE(self->handle);
+		Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+	}
+	PyObject_Del(self);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Functions for transferring buffers
+ */
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_sendbytes(ConnectionObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	char *buffer;
+	Py_ssize_t length, offset=0, size=PY_SSIZE_T_MIN;
+	int res;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, F_RBUFFER "#|" F_PY_SSIZE_T F_PY_SSIZE_T,
+			      &buffer, &length, &offset, &size))
+		return NULL;
+
+	CHECK_WRITABLE(self);
+
+	if (offset < 0) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "offset is negative");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	if (length < offset) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "buffer length < offset");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (size == PY_SSIZE_T_MIN) {
+		size = length - offset;
+	} else {
+		if (size < 0) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "size is negative");
+			return NULL;		
+		}
+		if (offset + size > length) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, 
+					"buffer length < offset + size");
+			return NULL;
+		}
+	}
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = conn_send_string(self, buffer + offset, size);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (res < 0)
+		return mp_SetError(PyExc_IOError, res);
+
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_recvbytes(ConnectionObject *self, PyObject *args) 
+{
+	char *freeme = NULL;
+	Py_ssize_t res, maxlength = PY_SSIZE_T_MAX;
+	PyObject *result = NULL;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|" F_PY_SSIZE_T, &maxlength))
+		return NULL;
+
+	CHECK_READABLE(self);
+	
+	if (maxlength < 0) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "maxlength < 0");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = conn_recv_string(self, self->buffer, CONNECTION_BUFFER_SIZE, 
+			       &freeme, maxlength);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+	
+	if (res < 0) {
+		if (res == MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH) {
+			if ((self->flags & WRITABLE) == 0) {
+				Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+				CLOSE(self->handle);
+				Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+				self->handle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
+			} else {
+				self->flags = WRITABLE;
+			}
+		}
+		mp_SetError(PyExc_IOError, res);
+	} else {    
+		if (freeme == NULL) {
+			result = PyString_FromStringAndSize(self->buffer, res);
+		} else {
+			result = PyString_FromStringAndSize(freeme, res);
+			PyMem_Free(freeme);
+		}
+	}
+	
+	return result;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_recvbytes_into(ConnectionObject *self, PyObject *args) 
+{
+	char *freeme = NULL, *buffer = NULL;
+	Py_ssize_t res, length, offset = 0;
+	PyObject *result = NULL;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "w#|" F_PY_SSIZE_T, 
+			      &buffer, &length, &offset))
+		return NULL;
+
+	CHECK_READABLE(self);
+
+	if (offset < 0) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "negative offset");
+		return NULL;
+	}   
+
+	if (offset > length) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "offset too large");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = conn_recv_string(self, buffer+offset, length-offset, 
+			       &freeme, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (res < 0) {
+		if (res == MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH) {
+			if ((self->flags & WRITABLE) == 0) {
+				Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+				CLOSE(self->handle);
+				Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+				self->handle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
+			} else {
+				self->flags = WRITABLE;
+			}
+		}
+		mp_SetError(PyExc_IOError, res);
+	} else {
+		if (freeme == NULL) {
+			result = PyInt_FromSsize_t(res);
+		} else {
+			result = PyObject_CallFunction(BufferTooShort, 
+						       F_RBUFFER "#", 
+						       freeme, res);
+			PyMem_Free(freeme);
+			if (result) {
+				PyErr_SetObject(BufferTooShort, result);
+				Py_DECREF(result);
+			}
+			return NULL;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return result;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Functions for transferring objects
+ */
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_send_obj(ConnectionObject *self, PyObject *obj)
+{
+	char *buffer;
+	int res;
+	Py_ssize_t length;
+	PyObject *pickled_string = NULL;
+
+	CHECK_WRITABLE(self);
+
+	pickled_string = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(pickle_dumps, obj, 
+						      pickle_protocol, NULL);
+	if (!pickled_string)
+		goto failure;
+
+	if (PyString_AsStringAndSize(pickled_string, &buffer, &length) < 0)
+		goto failure;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = conn_send_string(self, buffer, (int)length);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (res < 0) {
+		mp_SetError(PyExc_IOError, res);
+		goto failure;
+	}
+
+	Py_XDECREF(pickled_string);
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+
+  failure:
+	Py_XDECREF(pickled_string);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_recv_obj(ConnectionObject *self)
+{
+	char *freeme = NULL;
+	Py_ssize_t res;
+	PyObject *temp = NULL, *result = NULL;
+
+	CHECK_READABLE(self);
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = conn_recv_string(self, self->buffer, CONNECTION_BUFFER_SIZE, 
+			       &freeme, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (res < 0) {
+		if (res == MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH) {
+			if ((self->flags & WRITABLE) == 0) {
+				Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+				CLOSE(self->handle);
+				Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+				self->handle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
+			} else {
+				self->flags = WRITABLE;
+			}
+		}
+		mp_SetError(PyExc_IOError, res);
+	} else {    
+		if (freeme == NULL) {
+			temp = PyString_FromStringAndSize(self->buffer, res);
+		} else {
+			temp = PyString_FromStringAndSize(freeme, res);
+			PyMem_Free(freeme);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (temp)
+		result = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(pickle_loads, 
+						      temp, NULL);
+	Py_XDECREF(temp);
+	return result;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Other functions
+ */
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_poll(ConnectionObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	PyObject *timeout_obj = NULL;
+	double timeout = 0.0;
+	int res;
+
+	CHECK_READABLE(self);
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|O", &timeout_obj))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (timeout_obj == NULL) {
+		timeout = 0.0;
+	} else if (timeout_obj == Py_None) {
+		timeout = -1.0;				/* block forever */
+	} else {
+		timeout = PyFloat_AsDouble(timeout_obj);
+		if (PyErr_Occurred())
+			return NULL;
+		if (timeout < 0.0)
+			timeout = 0.0;
+	}
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = conn_poll(self, timeout);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	switch (res) {
+	case TRUE:
+		Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+	case FALSE:
+		Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+	default:
+		return mp_SetError(PyExc_IOError, res);
+	}
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_fileno(ConnectionObject* self)
+{
+	if (self->handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError, "handle is invalid");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	return PyInt_FromLong((long)self->handle);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_close(ConnectionObject *self)
+{
+	if (self->handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+		Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+		CLOSE(self->handle);
+		Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+		self->handle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
+	}
+
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_repr(ConnectionObject *self)
+{
+	static char *conn_type[] = {"read-only", "write-only", "read-write"};
+
+	assert(self->flags >= 1 && self->flags <= 3);
+	return FROM_FORMAT("<%s %s, handle %" PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T "d>", 
+			   conn_type[self->flags - 1],
+			   CONNECTION_NAME, (Py_ssize_t)self->handle);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Getters and setters
+ */
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_closed(ConnectionObject *self, void *closure)
+{
+	return PyBool_FromLong((long)(self->handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE));
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_readable(ConnectionObject *self, void *closure)
+{
+	return PyBool_FromLong((long)(self->flags & READABLE));
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+connection_writable(ConnectionObject *self, void *closure)
+{
+	return PyBool_FromLong((long)(self->flags & WRITABLE));
+}
+
+/*
+ * Tables
+ */
+
+static PyMethodDef connection_methods[] = {
+	{"send_bytes", (PyCFunction)connection_sendbytes, METH_VARARGS, 
+	 "send the byte data from a readable buffer-like object"},
+	{"recv_bytes", (PyCFunction)connection_recvbytes, METH_VARARGS, 
+	 "receive byte data as a string"},
+	{"recv_bytes_into",(PyCFunction)connection_recvbytes_into,METH_VARARGS,
+	 "receive byte data into a writeable buffer-like object\n"
+	 "returns the number of bytes read"},
+
+	{"send", (PyCFunction)connection_send_obj, METH_O, 
+	 "send a (picklable) object"},
+	{"recv", (PyCFunction)connection_recv_obj, METH_NOARGS, 
+	 "receive a (picklable) object"},
+
+	{"poll", (PyCFunction)connection_poll, METH_VARARGS, 
+	 "whether there is any input available to be read"},
+	{"fileno", (PyCFunction)connection_fileno, METH_NOARGS,
+	 "file descriptor or handle of the connection"},
+	{"close", (PyCFunction)connection_close, METH_NOARGS,
+	 "close the connection"},
+
+	{NULL}  /* Sentinel */
+};
+
+static PyGetSetDef connection_getset[] = {
+	{"closed", (getter)connection_closed, NULL, 
+	 "True if the connection is closed", NULL},
+	{"readable", (getter)connection_readable, NULL, 
+	 "True if the connection is readable", NULL},
+	{"writable", (getter)connection_writable, NULL, 
+	 "True if the connection is writable", NULL},
+	{NULL}
+};
+
+/*
+ * Connection type
+ */
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(connection_doc,
+	     "Connection type whose constructor signature is\n\n"
+	     "    Connection(handle, readable=True, writable=True).\n\n"
+	     "The constructor does *not* duplicate the handle.");
+
+PyTypeObject CONNECTION_TYPE = {
+	PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
+	/* tp_name           */ "_multiprocessing." CONNECTION_NAME,
+	/* tp_basicsize      */ sizeof(ConnectionObject),
+	/* tp_itemsize       */ 0,
+	/* tp_dealloc        */ (destructor)connection_dealloc,
+	/* tp_print          */ 0,
+	/* tp_getattr        */ 0,
+	/* tp_setattr        */ 0,
+	/* tp_compare        */ 0,
+	/* tp_repr           */ (reprfunc)connection_repr,
+	/* tp_as_number      */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_sequence    */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_mapping     */ 0,
+	/* tp_hash           */ 0,
+	/* tp_call           */ 0,
+	/* tp_str            */ 0,
+	/* tp_getattro       */ 0,
+	/* tp_setattro       */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_buffer      */ 0,
+	/* tp_flags          */ Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE | 
+				Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS,
+	/* tp_doc            */ connection_doc,
+	/* tp_traverse       */ 0,
+	/* tp_clear          */ 0,
+	/* tp_richcompare    */ 0,
+	/* tp_weaklistoffset */ offsetof(ConnectionObject, weakreflist),
+	/* tp_iter           */ 0,
+	/* tp_iternext       */ 0,
+	/* tp_methods        */ connection_methods,
+	/* tp_members        */ 0,
+	/* tp_getset         */ connection_getset,
+	/* tp_base           */ 0,
+	/* tp_dict           */ 0,
+	/* tp_descr_get      */ 0,
+	/* tp_descr_set      */ 0,
+	/* tp_dictoffset     */ 0,
+	/* tp_init           */ 0,
+	/* tp_alloc          */ 0,
+	/* tp_new            */ connection_new,
+};
+
+#endif /* CONNECTION_H */
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c b/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1050e1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+/*
+ * Extension module used by mutliprocessing package
+ *
+ * multiprocessing.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+ */
+
+#include "multiprocessing.h"
+
+PyObject *create_win32_namespace(void);
+
+PyObject *pickle_dumps, *pickle_loads, *pickle_protocol;
+PyObject *ProcessError, *BufferTooShort;
+
+/*
+ * Function which raises exceptions based on error codes
+ */
+
+PyObject *
+mp_SetError(PyObject *Type, int num)
+{
+	switch (num) {
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+	case MP_STANDARD_ERROR: 
+		if (Type == NULL)
+			Type = PyExc_WindowsError;
+		PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(Type, 0);
+		break;
+	case MP_SOCKET_ERROR:
+		if (Type == NULL)
+			Type = PyExc_WindowsError;
+		PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(Type, WSAGetLastError());
+		break;
+#else /* !MS_WINDOWS */
+	case MP_STANDARD_ERROR:
+	case MP_SOCKET_ERROR:
+		if (Type == NULL)
+			Type = PyExc_OSError;
+		PyErr_SetFromErrno(Type);
+		break;
+#endif /* !MS_WINDOWS */
+	case MP_MEMORY_ERROR:
+		PyErr_NoMemory();
+		break;
+	case MP_END_OF_FILE:
+		PyErr_SetNone(PyExc_EOFError);
+		break;
+	case MP_EARLY_END_OF_FILE:
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError,
+				"got end of file during message");
+		break;
+	case MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH:
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError, "bad message length");
+		break;
+	case MP_EXCEPTION_HAS_BEEN_SET:
+		break;
+	default:
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError,
+			     "unkown error number %d", num);
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Windows only
+ */
+
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+
+/* On Windows we set an event to signal Ctrl-C; compare with timemodule.c */
+
+HANDLE sigint_event = NULL;
+
+static BOOL WINAPI
+ProcessingCtrlHandler(DWORD dwCtrlType)
+{
+	SetEvent(sigint_event);
+	return FALSE;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Unix only
+ */
+
+#else /* !MS_WINDOWS */
+
+#if HAVE_FD_TRANSFER
+
+/* Functions for transferring file descriptors between processes.
+   Reimplements some of the functionality of the fdcred
+   module at http://www.mca-ltd.com/resources/fdcred_1.tgz. */
+
+static PyObject *
+multiprocessing_sendfd(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	int conn, fd, res;
+	char dummy_char;
+	char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];
+	struct msghdr msg = {0};
+	struct iovec dummy_iov;
+	struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "ii", &conn, &fd))
+		return NULL;
+
+	dummy_iov.iov_base = &dummy_char;
+	dummy_iov.iov_len = 1;
+	msg.msg_control = buf;
+	msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(buf);
+	msg.msg_iov = &dummy_iov;
+	msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
+	cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);
+	cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
+	cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;
+	cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int));
+	msg.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len;
+	*(int*)CMSG_DATA(cmsg) = fd;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = sendmsg(conn, &msg, 0);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (res < 0)
+		return PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+multiprocessing_recvfd(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	int conn, fd, res;
+	char dummy_char;
+	char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];
+	struct msghdr msg = {0};
+	struct iovec dummy_iov;
+	struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i", &conn))
+		return NULL;
+
+	dummy_iov.iov_base = &dummy_char;
+	dummy_iov.iov_len = 1;
+	msg.msg_control = buf;
+	msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(buf);
+	msg.msg_iov = &dummy_iov;
+	msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
+	cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);
+	cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
+	cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;
+	cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int));
+	msg.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	res = recvmsg(conn, &msg, 0);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (res < 0)
+		return PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+
+	fd = *(int*)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
+	return Py_BuildValue("i", fd);
+}
+
+#endif /* HAVE_FD_TRANSFER */
+
+#endif /* !MS_WINDOWS */
+
+
+/*
+ * All platforms
+ */
+
+static PyObject*
+multiprocessing_address_of_buffer(PyObject *self, PyObject *obj)
+{
+	void *buffer;
+	Py_ssize_t buffer_len;
+
+	if (PyObject_AsWriteBuffer(obj, &buffer, &buffer_len) < 0)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return Py_BuildValue("N" F_PY_SSIZE_T, 
+			     PyLong_FromVoidPtr(buffer), buffer_len);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Function table
+ */
+
+static PyMethodDef module_methods[] = {
+	{"address_of_buffer", multiprocessing_address_of_buffer, METH_O, 
+	 "address_of_buffer(obj) -> int\n" 
+	 "Return address of obj assuming obj supports buffer inteface"},
+#if HAVE_FD_TRANSFER
+	{"sendfd", multiprocessing_sendfd, METH_VARARGS, 
+	 "sendfd(sockfd, fd) -> None\n"
+	 "Send file descriptor given by fd over the unix domain socket\n"
+	 "whose file decriptor is sockfd"},
+	{"recvfd", multiprocessing_recvfd, METH_VARARGS,
+	 "recvfd(sockfd) -> fd\n"
+	 "Receive a file descriptor over a unix domain socket\n"
+	 "whose file decriptor is sockfd"},
+#endif
+	{NULL}
+};
+
+
+/*
+ * Initialize
+ */
+
+PyMODINIT_FUNC
+init_multiprocessing(void)
+{
+	PyObject *module, *temp;
+
+	/* Initialize module */
+	module = Py_InitModule("_multiprocessing", module_methods);
+	if (!module)
+		return;
+
+	/* Get copy of objects from pickle */
+	temp = PyImport_ImportModule(PICKLE_MODULE);
+	if (!temp)
+		return;
+	pickle_dumps = PyObject_GetAttrString(temp, "dumps");
+	pickle_loads = PyObject_GetAttrString(temp, "loads");
+	pickle_protocol = PyObject_GetAttrString(temp, "HIGHEST_PROTOCOL");
+	Py_XDECREF(temp);
+
+	/* Get copy of BufferTooShort */
+	temp = PyImport_ImportModule("multiprocessing");
+	if (!temp)
+		return;
+	BufferTooShort = PyObject_GetAttrString(temp, "BufferTooShort");
+	Py_XDECREF(temp);
+
+	/* Add connection type to module */
+	if (PyType_Ready(&ConnectionType) < 0)
+		return;
+	Py_INCREF(&ConnectionType);	
+	PyModule_AddObject(module, "Connection", (PyObject*)&ConnectionType);
+
+#if defined(MS_WINDOWS) || HAVE_SEM_OPEN
+	/* Add SemLock type to module */
+	if (PyType_Ready(&SemLockType) < 0)
+		return;
+	Py_INCREF(&SemLockType);
+	PyDict_SetItemString(SemLockType.tp_dict, "SEM_VALUE_MAX", 
+			     Py_BuildValue("i", SEM_VALUE_MAX));
+	PyModule_AddObject(module, "SemLock", (PyObject*)&SemLockType);   
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+	/* Add PipeConnection to module */
+	if (PyType_Ready(&PipeConnectionType) < 0)
+		return;
+	Py_INCREF(&PipeConnectionType);
+	PyModule_AddObject(module, "PipeConnection",
+			   (PyObject*)&PipeConnectionType);
+
+	/* Initialize win32 class and add to multiprocessing */
+	temp = create_win32_namespace();
+	if (!temp)
+		return;
+	PyModule_AddObject(module, "win32", temp);
+
+	/* Initialize the event handle used to signal Ctrl-C */
+	sigint_event = CreateEvent(NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL);
+	if (!sigint_event) {
+		PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+		return;
+	}
+	if (!SetConsoleCtrlHandler(ProcessingCtrlHandler, TRUE)) {
+		PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+		return;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/* Add configuration macros */
+	temp = PyDict_New();
+	if (!temp)
+		return;
+	if (PyModule_AddObject(module, "flags", temp) < 0)
+		return;
+
+#define ADD_FLAG(name) \
+    if (PyDict_SetItemString(temp, #name, Py_BuildValue("i", name)) < 0) return
+	
+#ifdef HAVE_SEM_OPEN
+	ADD_FLAG(HAVE_SEM_OPEN);
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT
+	ADD_FLAG(HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT);
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_FD_TRANSFER
+	ADD_FLAG(HAVE_FD_TRANSFER);
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE
+	ADD_FLAG(HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE);
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_UNLINK
+	ADD_FLAG(HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_UNLINK);
+#endif
+}
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.h b/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40f2c08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.h
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+#ifndef MULTIPROCESSING_H
+#define MULTIPROCESSING_H
+
+#define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
+
+#include "Python.h"
+#include "structmember.h"
+#include "pythread.h"
+
+/*
+ * Platform includes and definitions
+ */
+
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+#  define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#  include <windows.h>
+#  include <winsock2.h>
+#  include <process.h>		     /* getpid() */
+#  define SEM_HANDLE HANDLE
+#  define SEM_VALUE_MAX LONG_MAX
+#else
+#  include <fcntl.h>                 /* O_CREAT and O_EXCL */
+#  include <sys/socket.h>
+#  include <arpa/inet.h>             /* htonl() and ntohl() */
+#  if HAVE_SEM_OPEN
+#    include <semaphore.h>
+     typedef sem_t *SEM_HANDLE;
+#  endif
+#  define HANDLE int
+#  define SOCKET int
+#  define BOOL int
+#  define UINT32 uint32_t
+#  define INT32 int32_t
+#  define TRUE 1
+#  define FALSE 0
+#  define INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE (-1)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Make sure Py_ssize_t available
+ */
+
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02050000 && !defined(PY_SSIZE_T_MIN)
+   typedef int Py_ssize_t;
+#  define PY_SSIZE_T_MAX INT_MAX
+#  define PY_SSIZE_T_MIN INT_MIN
+#  define F_PY_SSIZE_T "i"
+#  define PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T ""
+#  define PyInt_FromSsize_t(n) PyInt_FromLong((long)n)
+#else
+#  define F_PY_SSIZE_T "n"
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Format codes
+ */
+
+#if SIZEOF_VOID_P == SIZEOF_LONG
+#  define F_POINTER "k"
+#  define T_POINTER T_ULONG
+#elif defined(HAVE_LONG_LONG) && (SIZEOF_VOID_P == SIZEOF_LONG_LONG)
+#  define F_POINTER "K"
+#  define T_POINTER T_ULONGLONG
+#else
+#  error "can't find format code for unsigned integer of same size as void*"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+#  define F_HANDLE F_POINTER
+#  define T_HANDLE T_POINTER
+#  define F_SEM_HANDLE F_HANDLE
+#  define T_SEM_HANDLE T_HANDLE
+#  define F_DWORD "k"
+#  define T_DWORD T_ULONG
+#else
+#  define F_HANDLE "i"
+#  define T_HANDLE T_INT
+#  define F_SEM_HANDLE F_POINTER
+#  define T_SEM_HANDLE T_POINTER
+#endif
+
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03000000
+#  define F_RBUFFER "y"
+#else
+#  define F_RBUFFER "s"
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Error codes which can be returned by functions called without GIL
+ */
+
+#define MP_SUCCESS (0)
+#define MP_STANDARD_ERROR (-1)
+#define MP_MEMORY_ERROR (-1001)
+#define MP_END_OF_FILE (-1002)
+#define MP_EARLY_END_OF_FILE (-1003)
+#define MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH (-1004)
+#define MP_SOCKET_ERROR (-1005)
+#define MP_EXCEPTION_HAS_BEEN_SET (-1006)
+
+PyObject *mp_SetError(PyObject *Type, int num);
+
+/*
+ * Externs - not all will really exist on all platforms
+ */
+
+extern PyObject *pickle_dumps;
+extern PyObject *pickle_loads;
+extern PyObject *pickle_protocol;
+extern PyObject *BufferTooShort;
+extern PyTypeObject SemLockType;
+extern PyTypeObject ConnectionType;
+extern PyTypeObject PipeConnectionType;
+extern HANDLE sigint_event;
+
+/*
+ * Py3k compatibility
+ */
+
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03000000
+#  define PICKLE_MODULE "pickle"
+#  define FROM_FORMAT PyUnicode_FromFormat
+#  define PyInt_FromLong PyLong_FromLong
+#  define PyInt_FromSsize_t PyLong_FromSsize_t
+#else
+#  define PICKLE_MODULE "cPickle"
+#  define FROM_FORMAT PyString_FromFormat
+#endif
+
+#ifndef PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT
+#  define PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(type, size) PyObject_HEAD_INIT(type) size,
+#endif
+
+#ifndef Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS
+#  define Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS 0
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Connection definition
+ */
+
+#define CONNECTION_BUFFER_SIZE 1024
+
+typedef struct {
+	PyObject_HEAD
+	HANDLE handle;
+	int flags;
+	PyObject *weakreflist;
+	char buffer[CONNECTION_BUFFER_SIZE];
+} ConnectionObject;
+
+/*
+ * Miscellaneous
+ */
+
+#define MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH 0x7fffffff
+
+#ifndef MIN
+#  define MIN(x, y) ((x) < (y) ? x : y)
+#  define MAX(x, y) ((x) > (y) ? x : y)
+#endif
+
+#endif /* MULTIPROCESSING_H */
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/pipe_connection.c b/Modules/_multiprocessing/pipe_connection.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a96338f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/pipe_connection.c
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+/*
+ * A type which wraps a pipe handle in message oriented mode
+ *
+ * pipe_connection.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+ */
+
+#include "multiprocessing.h"
+
+#define CLOSE(h) CloseHandle(h)
+
+/*
+ * Send string to the pipe; assumes in message oriented mode
+ */
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+conn_send_string(ConnectionObject *conn, char *string, size_t length)
+{
+	DWORD amount_written;
+
+	return WriteFile(conn->handle, string, length, &amount_written, NULL)
+		? MP_SUCCESS : MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Attempts to read into buffer, or if buffer too small into *newbuffer.
+ *
+ * Returns number of bytes read.  Assumes in message oriented mode.
+ */
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+conn_recv_string(ConnectionObject *conn, char *buffer, 
+		 size_t buflength, char **newbuffer, size_t maxlength)
+{
+	DWORD left, length, full_length, err;
+
+	*newbuffer = NULL;
+
+	if (ReadFile(conn->handle, buffer, MIN(buflength, maxlength), 
+		     &length, NULL))
+		return length;
+
+	err = GetLastError();
+	if (err != ERROR_MORE_DATA) {
+		if (err == ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE)
+			return MP_END_OF_FILE;
+		return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	if (!PeekNamedPipe(conn->handle, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, &left))
+		return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+
+	full_length = length + left;
+	if (full_length > maxlength)
+		return MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH;
+
+	*newbuffer = PyMem_Malloc(full_length);
+	if (*newbuffer == NULL)
+		return MP_MEMORY_ERROR;
+
+	memcpy(*newbuffer, buffer, length);
+
+	if (ReadFile(conn->handle, *newbuffer+length, left, &length, NULL)) {
+		assert(length == left);
+		return full_length;
+	} else {
+		PyMem_Free(*newbuffer);
+		return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check whether any data is available for reading
+ */
+
+#define conn_poll(conn, timeout) conn_poll_save(conn, timeout, _save)
+
+static int
+conn_poll_save(ConnectionObject *conn, double timeout, PyThreadState *_save)
+{
+	DWORD bytes, deadline, delay;
+	int difference, res;
+	BOOL block = FALSE;
+
+	if (!PeekNamedPipe(conn->handle, NULL, 0, NULL, &bytes, NULL))
+		return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+
+	if (timeout == 0.0)
+		return bytes > 0;
+
+	if (timeout < 0.0)
+		block = TRUE;
+	else
+		/* XXX does not check for overflow */
+		deadline = GetTickCount() + (DWORD)(1000 * timeout + 0.5);
+
+	Sleep(0);
+
+	for (delay = 1 ; ; delay += 1) {
+		if (!PeekNamedPipe(conn->handle, NULL, 0, NULL, &bytes, NULL))
+			return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+		else if (bytes > 0)
+			return TRUE;
+
+		if (!block) {
+			difference = deadline - GetTickCount();
+			if (difference < 0)
+				return FALSE;
+			if ((int)delay > difference)
+				delay = difference;
+		}
+
+		if (delay > 20)
+			delay = 20;
+
+		Sleep(delay);
+
+		/* check for signals */
+		Py_BLOCK_THREADS 
+		res = PyErr_CheckSignals();
+		Py_UNBLOCK_THREADS
+
+		if (res)
+			return MP_EXCEPTION_HAS_BEEN_SET;
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * "connection.h" defines the PipeConnection type using the definitions above
+ */
+
+#define CONNECTION_NAME "PipeConnection"
+#define CONNECTION_TYPE PipeConnectionType
+
+#include "connection.h"
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c b/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7ffd1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c
@@ -0,0 +1,625 @@
+/*
+ * A type which wraps a semaphore
+ *
+ * semaphore.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+ */
+
+#include "multiprocessing.h"
+
+enum { RECURSIVE_MUTEX, SEMAPHORE };
+
+typedef struct {
+	PyObject_HEAD
+	SEM_HANDLE handle;
+	long last_tid;
+	int count;
+	int maxvalue;
+	int kind;
+} SemLockObject;
+
+#define ISMINE(o) (o->count > 0 && PyThread_get_thread_ident() == o->last_tid)
+
+
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+
+/*
+ * Windows definitions
+ */
+
+#define SEM_FAILED NULL
+
+#define SEM_CLEAR_ERROR() SetLastError(0)
+#define SEM_GET_LAST_ERROR() GetLastError()
+#define SEM_CREATE(name, val, max) CreateSemaphore(NULL, val, max, NULL)
+#define SEM_CLOSE(sem) (CloseHandle(sem) ? 0 : -1)
+#define SEM_GETVALUE(sem, pval) _GetSemaphoreValue(sem, pval)
+#define SEM_UNLINK(name) 0
+
+static int
+_GetSemaphoreValue(HANDLE handle, long *value)
+{
+	long previous;
+
+	switch (WaitForSingleObject(handle, 0)) {
+	case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
+		if (!ReleaseSemaphore(handle, 1, &previous))
+			return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+		*value = previous + 1;
+		return 0;
+	case WAIT_TIMEOUT:
+		*value = 0;
+		return 0;
+	default:
+		return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+	}
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_acquire(SemLockObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+	int blocking = 1;
+	double timeout;
+	PyObject *timeout_obj = Py_None;
+	DWORD res, full_msecs, msecs, start, ticks;
+
+	static char *kwlist[] = {"block", "timeout", NULL};
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "|iO", kwlist,
+					 &blocking, &timeout_obj))
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* calculate timeout */
+	if (!blocking) {
+		full_msecs = 0;
+	} else if (timeout_obj == Py_None) {
+		full_msecs = INFINITE;
+	} else {
+		timeout = PyFloat_AsDouble(timeout_obj);
+		if (PyErr_Occurred())
+			return NULL;
+		timeout *= 1000.0;      /* convert to millisecs */
+		if (timeout < 0.0) {
+			timeout = 0.0;
+		} else if (timeout >= 0.5 * INFINITE) { /* 25 days */
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
+					"timeout is too large");
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		full_msecs = (DWORD)(timeout + 0.5);
+	}
+	
+	/* check whether we already own the lock */
+	if (self->kind == RECURSIVE_MUTEX && ISMINE(self)) {
+		++self->count;
+		Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+	}
+
+	/* check whether we can acquire without blocking */
+	if (WaitForSingleObject(self->handle, 0) == WAIT_OBJECT_0) {
+		self->last_tid = GetCurrentThreadId();
+		++self->count;
+		Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+	}
+	
+	msecs = full_msecs;
+	start = GetTickCount();
+
+	for ( ; ; ) {
+		HANDLE handles[2] = {self->handle, sigint_event};
+		
+		/* do the wait */
+		Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+		ResetEvent(sigint_event);
+		res = WaitForMultipleObjects(2, handles, FALSE, msecs);
+		Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+		
+		/* handle result */
+		if (res != WAIT_OBJECT_0 + 1)
+			break;
+		
+		/* got SIGINT so give signal handler a chance to run */
+		Sleep(1);
+		
+		/* if this is main thread let KeyboardInterrupt be raised */
+		if (PyErr_CheckSignals())
+			return NULL;
+		
+		/* recalculate timeout */
+		if (msecs != INFINITE) {
+			ticks = GetTickCount();
+			if ((DWORD)(ticks - start) >= full_msecs)
+				Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+			msecs = full_msecs - (ticks - start);
+		}
+	}
+	
+	/* handle result */
+	switch (res) {
+	case WAIT_TIMEOUT:
+		Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+	case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
+		self->last_tid = GetCurrentThreadId();
+		++self->count;
+		Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+	case WAIT_FAILED:
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+	default:
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError, "WaitForSingleObject() or "
+			     "WaitForMultipleObjects() gave unrecognized "
+			     "value %d", res);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_release(SemLockObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	if (self->kind == RECURSIVE_MUTEX) {
+		if (!ISMINE(self)) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_AssertionError, "attempt to "
+					"release recursive lock not owned "
+					"by thread");
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		if (self->count > 1) {
+			--self->count;
+			Py_RETURN_NONE;
+		}
+		assert(self->count == 1);
+	}
+
+	if (!ReleaseSemaphore(self->handle, 1, NULL)) {
+		if (GetLastError() == ERROR_TOO_MANY_POSTS) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "semaphore or lock "
+					"released too many times");
+			return NULL;
+		} else {
+			return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+		}
+	}
+
+	--self->count;
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+#else /* !MS_WINDOWS */
+
+/*
+ * Unix definitions
+ */
+
+#define SEM_CLEAR_ERROR()
+#define SEM_GET_LAST_ERROR() 0
+#define SEM_CREATE(name, val, max) sem_open(name, O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600, val)
+#define SEM_CLOSE(sem) sem_close(sem)
+#define SEM_GETVALUE(sem, pval) sem_getvalue(sem, pval)
+#define SEM_UNLINK(name) sem_unlink(name)
+
+#if HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_UNLINK
+#  define sem_unlink(name) 0
+#endif
+
+#if !HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT
+#  define sem_timedwait(sem,deadline) sem_timedwait_save(sem,deadline,_save)
+
+int
+sem_timedwait_save(sem_t *sem, struct timespec *deadline, PyThreadState *_save)
+{
+	int res;
+	unsigned long delay, difference;
+	struct timeval now, tvdeadline, tvdelay;
+
+	errno = 0;
+	tvdeadline.tv_sec = deadline->tv_sec;
+	tvdeadline.tv_usec = deadline->tv_nsec / 1000;
+
+	for (delay = 0 ; ; delay += 1000) {
+		/* poll */
+		if (sem_trywait(sem) == 0)
+			return 0;
+		else if (errno != EAGAIN)
+			return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+
+		/* get current time */
+		if (gettimeofday(&now, NULL) < 0)
+			return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+
+		/* check for timeout */
+		if (tvdeadline.tv_sec < now.tv_sec || 
+		    (tvdeadline.tv_sec == now.tv_sec && 
+		     tvdeadline.tv_usec <= now.tv_usec)) {
+			errno = ETIMEDOUT;
+			return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+		}
+
+		/* calculate how much time is left */
+		difference = (tvdeadline.tv_sec - now.tv_sec) * 1000000 + 
+			(tvdeadline.tv_usec - now.tv_usec);
+
+		/* check delay not too long -- maximum is 20 msecs */
+		if (delay > 20000)
+			delay = 20000;
+		if (delay > difference)
+			delay = difference;
+
+		/* sleep */
+		tvdelay.tv_sec = delay / 1000000;
+		tvdelay.tv_usec = delay % 1000000;
+		if (select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tvdelay) < 0)
+			return MP_STANDARD_ERROR;
+
+		/* check for signals */
+		Py_BLOCK_THREADS 
+		res = PyErr_CheckSignals();
+		Py_UNBLOCK_THREADS
+
+		if (res) {
+			errno = EINTR;
+			return MP_EXCEPTION_HAS_BEEN_SET;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+#endif /* !HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT */
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_acquire(SemLockObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+	int blocking = 1, res;
+	double timeout;
+	PyObject *timeout_obj = Py_None;
+	struct timespec deadline = {0};
+	struct timeval now;
+	long sec, nsec;
+
+	static char *kwlist[] = {"block", "timeout", NULL};
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "|iO", kwlist,
+					 &blocking, &timeout_obj))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (self->kind == RECURSIVE_MUTEX && ISMINE(self)) {
+		++self->count;
+		Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+	}
+
+	if (timeout_obj != Py_None) {
+		timeout = PyFloat_AsDouble(timeout_obj);
+		if (PyErr_Occurred())
+			return NULL;
+		if (timeout < 0.0)
+			timeout = 0.0;
+
+		if (gettimeofday(&now, NULL) < 0) {
+			PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		sec = (long) timeout;
+		nsec = (long) (1e9 * (timeout - sec) + 0.5);
+		deadline.tv_sec = now.tv_sec + sec;
+		deadline.tv_nsec = now.tv_usec * 1000 + nsec;
+		deadline.tv_sec += (deadline.tv_nsec / 1000000000);
+		deadline.tv_nsec %= 1000000000;
+	}
+
+	do {
+		Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+		if (blocking && timeout_obj == Py_None)
+			res = sem_wait(self->handle);
+		else if (!blocking)
+			res = sem_trywait(self->handle);
+		else
+			res = sem_timedwait(self->handle, &deadline);
+		Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+		if (res == MP_EXCEPTION_HAS_BEEN_SET)
+			break;
+	} while (res < 0 && errno == EINTR && !PyErr_CheckSignals());
+
+	if (res < 0) {
+		if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == ETIMEDOUT)
+			Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+		else if (errno == EINTR)
+			return NULL;
+		else
+			return PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+	}
+
+	++self->count;
+	self->last_tid = PyThread_get_thread_ident();
+
+	Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_release(SemLockObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	if (self->kind == RECURSIVE_MUTEX) {
+		if (!ISMINE(self)) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_AssertionError, "attempt to "
+					"release recursive lock not owned "
+					"by thread");
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		if (self->count > 1) {
+			--self->count;
+			Py_RETURN_NONE;
+		}
+		assert(self->count == 1);
+	} else {
+#if HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE
+		/* We will only check properly the maxvalue == 1 case */
+		if (self->maxvalue == 1) {
+			/* make sure that already locked */
+			if (sem_trywait(self->handle) < 0) {
+				if (errno != EAGAIN) {
+					PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+					return NULL;
+				}
+				/* it is already locked as expected */
+			} else {
+				/* it was not locked so undo wait and raise  */
+				if (sem_post(self->handle) < 0) {
+					PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+					return NULL;
+				}
+				PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "semaphore "
+						"or lock released too many "
+						"times");
+				return NULL;
+			}
+		}
+#else
+		int sval;
+
+		/* This check is not an absolute guarantee that the semaphore
+		   does not rise above maxvalue. */
+		if (sem_getvalue(self->handle, &sval) < 0) {
+			return PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+		} else if (sval >= self->maxvalue) {
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "semaphore or lock "
+					"released too many times");
+			return NULL;
+		}
+#endif
+	}
+
+	if (sem_post(self->handle) < 0)
+		return PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+
+	--self->count;
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+#endif /* !MS_WINDOWS */
+
+/*
+ * All platforms
+ */
+
+static PyObject *
+newsemlockobject(PyTypeObject *type, SEM_HANDLE handle, int kind, int maxvalue)
+{
+	SemLockObject *self;
+
+	self = PyObject_New(SemLockObject, type);
+	if (!self)
+		return NULL;
+	self->handle = handle;
+	self->kind = kind;
+	self->count = 0;
+	self->last_tid = 0;
+	self->maxvalue = maxvalue;
+	return (PyObject*)self;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+	char buffer[256];
+	SEM_HANDLE handle = SEM_FAILED;
+	int kind, maxvalue, value;
+	PyObject *result;
+	static char *kwlist[] = {"kind", "value", "maxvalue", NULL};
+	static int counter = 0;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "iii", kwlist, 
+					 &kind, &value, &maxvalue))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (kind != RECURSIVE_MUTEX && kind != SEMAPHORE) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "unrecognized kind");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	PyOS_snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "/mp%d-%d", getpid(), counter++);
+
+	SEM_CLEAR_ERROR();
+	handle = SEM_CREATE(buffer, value, maxvalue);
+	/* On Windows we should fail if GetLastError()==ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS */
+	if (handle == SEM_FAILED || SEM_GET_LAST_ERROR() != 0)
+		goto failure;
+
+	if (SEM_UNLINK(buffer) < 0)
+		goto failure;
+
+	result = newsemlockobject(type, handle, kind, maxvalue);
+	if (!result)
+		goto failure;
+
+	return result;
+
+  failure:
+	if (handle != SEM_FAILED)
+		SEM_CLOSE(handle);
+	mp_SetError(NULL, MP_STANDARD_ERROR);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_rebuild(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args)
+{
+	SEM_HANDLE handle;
+	int kind, maxvalue;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, F_SEM_HANDLE "ii", 
+			      &handle, &kind, &maxvalue))
+		return NULL;
+
+	return newsemlockobject(type, handle, kind, maxvalue);
+}
+
+static void
+semlock_dealloc(SemLockObject* self)
+{
+	if (self->handle != SEM_FAILED)
+		SEM_CLOSE(self->handle);
+	PyObject_Del(self);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_count(SemLockObject *self)
+{
+	return PyInt_FromLong((long)self->count);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_ismine(SemLockObject *self)
+{
+	/* only makes sense for a lock */
+	return PyBool_FromLong(ISMINE(self));
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_getvalue(SemLockObject *self)
+{
+#if HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE
+	PyErr_SetNone(PyExc_NotImplementedError);
+	return NULL;
+#else
+	int sval;
+	if (SEM_GETVALUE(self->handle, &sval) < 0)
+		return mp_SetError(NULL, MP_STANDARD_ERROR);
+	/* some posix implementations use negative numbers to indicate 
+	   the number of waiting threads */
+	if (sval < 0)
+		sval = 0;
+	return PyInt_FromLong((long)sval);
+#endif
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_iszero(SemLockObject *self)
+{
+	int sval;
+#if HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE
+	if (sem_trywait(self->handle) < 0) {
+		if (errno == EAGAIN)
+			Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+		return mp_SetError(NULL, MP_STANDARD_ERROR);
+	} else {
+		if (sem_post(self->handle) < 0)
+			return mp_SetError(NULL, MP_STANDARD_ERROR);
+		Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+	}
+#else
+	if (SEM_GETVALUE(self->handle, &sval) < 0)
+		return mp_SetError(NULL, MP_STANDARD_ERROR);
+	return PyBool_FromLong((long)sval == 0);
+#endif
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+semlock_afterfork(SemLockObject *self)
+{
+	self->count = 0;
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Semaphore methods
+ */
+
+static PyMethodDef semlock_methods[] = {
+	{"acquire", (PyCFunction)semlock_acquire, METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS,
+	 "acquire the semaphore/lock"},
+	{"release", (PyCFunction)semlock_release, METH_NOARGS, 
+	 "release the semaphore/lock"},
+	{"__enter__", (PyCFunction)semlock_acquire, METH_VARARGS,
+	 "enter the semaphore/lock"},
+	{"__exit__", (PyCFunction)semlock_release, METH_VARARGS, 
+	 "exit the semaphore/lock"},
+	{"_count", (PyCFunction)semlock_count, METH_NOARGS, 
+	 "num of `acquire()`s minus num of `release()`s for this process"},
+	{"_is_mine", (PyCFunction)semlock_ismine, METH_NOARGS, 
+	 "whether the lock is owned by this thread"},
+	{"_get_value", (PyCFunction)semlock_getvalue, METH_NOARGS, 
+	 "get the value of the semaphore"}, 
+	{"_is_zero", (PyCFunction)semlock_iszero, METH_NOARGS, 
+	 "returns whether semaphore has value zero"}, 
+	{"_rebuild", (PyCFunction)semlock_rebuild, METH_VARARGS | METH_CLASS, 
+	 ""}, 
+	{"_after_fork", (PyCFunction)semlock_afterfork, METH_NOARGS,
+	 "rezero the net acquisition count after fork()"},
+	{NULL}
+};
+
+/*
+ * Member table
+ */
+
+static PyMemberDef semlock_members[] = {
+	{"handle", T_SEM_HANDLE, offsetof(SemLockObject, handle), READONLY, 
+	 ""},
+	{"kind", T_INT, offsetof(SemLockObject, kind), READONLY, 
+	 ""},
+	{"maxvalue", T_INT, offsetof(SemLockObject, maxvalue), READONLY, 
+	 ""},
+	{NULL}
+};
+
+/*
+ * Semaphore type
+ */
+
+PyTypeObject SemLockType = {
+	PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
+	/* tp_name           */ "_multiprocessing.SemLock",
+	/* tp_basicsize      */ sizeof(SemLockObject),
+	/* tp_itemsize       */ 0,
+	/* tp_dealloc        */ (destructor)semlock_dealloc,
+	/* tp_print          */ 0,
+	/* tp_getattr        */ 0,
+	/* tp_setattr        */ 0,
+	/* tp_compare        */ 0,
+	/* tp_repr           */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_number      */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_sequence    */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_mapping     */ 0,
+	/* tp_hash           */ 0,
+	/* tp_call           */ 0,
+	/* tp_str            */ 0,
+	/* tp_getattro       */ 0,
+	/* tp_setattro       */ 0,
+	/* tp_as_buffer      */ 0,
+	/* tp_flags          */ Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE,
+	/* tp_doc            */ "Semaphore/Mutex type",
+	/* tp_traverse       */ 0,
+	/* tp_clear          */ 0,
+	/* tp_richcompare    */ 0,
+	/* tp_weaklistoffset */ 0,
+	/* tp_iter           */ 0,
+	/* tp_iternext       */ 0,
+	/* tp_methods        */ semlock_methods,
+	/* tp_members        */ semlock_members,
+	/* tp_getset         */ 0,
+	/* tp_base           */ 0,
+	/* tp_dict           */ 0,
+	/* tp_descr_get      */ 0,
+	/* tp_descr_set      */ 0,
+	/* tp_dictoffset     */ 0,
+	/* tp_init           */ 0,
+	/* tp_alloc          */ 0,
+	/* tp_new            */ semlock_new,
+};
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c b/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6ff9dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+/*
+ * A type which wraps a socket
+ *
+ * socket_connection.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+ */
+
+#include "multiprocessing.h"
+
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+#  define WRITE(h, buffer, length) send((SOCKET)h, buffer, length, 0)
+#  define READ(h, buffer, length) recv((SOCKET)h, buffer, length, 0)
+#  define CLOSE(h) closesocket((SOCKET)h)
+#else
+#  define WRITE(h, buffer, length) write(h, buffer, length)
+#  define READ(h, buffer, length) read(h, buffer, length)
+#  define CLOSE(h) close(h)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Send string to file descriptor
+ */
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+_conn_sendall(HANDLE h, char *string, size_t length)
+{
+	char *p = string;
+	Py_ssize_t res;
+
+	while (length > 0) {
+		res = WRITE(h, p, length);
+		if (res < 0)
+			return MP_SOCKET_ERROR;
+		length -= res;
+		p += res;
+	}
+
+	return MP_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Receive string of exact length from file descriptor 
+ */
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+_conn_recvall(HANDLE h, char *buffer, size_t length)
+{
+	size_t remaining = length;
+	Py_ssize_t temp;
+	char *p = buffer;
+
+	while (remaining > 0) {
+		temp = READ(h, p, remaining);
+		if (temp <= 0) {
+			if (temp == 0)
+				return remaining == length ? 
+					MP_END_OF_FILE : MP_EARLY_END_OF_FILE;
+			else
+				return temp;
+		}
+		remaining -= temp;
+		p += temp;
+	}
+
+	return MP_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Send a string prepended by the string length in network byte order
+ */
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+conn_send_string(ConnectionObject *conn, char *string, size_t length)
+{
+	/* The "header" of the message is a 32 bit unsigned number (in
+	   network order) which specifies the length of the "body".  If
+	   the message is shorter than about 16kb then it is quicker to
+	   combine the "header" and the "body" of the message and send
+	   them at once. */
+	if (length < (16*1024)) {
+		char *message;
+		int res;
+
+		message = PyMem_Malloc(length+4);
+		if (message == NULL)
+			return MP_MEMORY_ERROR;
+
+		*(UINT32*)message = htonl((UINT32)length);     
+		memcpy(message+4, string, length);
+		res = _conn_sendall(conn->handle, message, length+4);
+		PyMem_Free(message);
+		return res;
+	} else {
+		UINT32 lenbuff;
+
+		if (length > MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH)
+			return MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH;
+
+		lenbuff = htonl((UINT32)length);
+		return _conn_sendall(conn->handle, (char*)&lenbuff, 4) || 
+			_conn_sendall(conn->handle, string, length);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Attempts to read into buffer, or failing that into *newbuffer
+ *
+ * Returns number of bytes read.
+ */
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+conn_recv_string(ConnectionObject *conn, char *buffer, 
+		 size_t buflength, char **newbuffer, size_t maxlength)
+{
+	int res;
+	UINT32 ulength;
+
+	*newbuffer = NULL;
+
+	res = _conn_recvall(conn->handle, (char*)&ulength, 4);
+	if (res < 0)
+		return res;
+
+	ulength = ntohl(ulength);
+	if (ulength > maxlength)
+		return MP_BAD_MESSAGE_LENGTH;
+
+	if (ulength <= buflength) {
+		res = _conn_recvall(conn->handle, buffer, (size_t)ulength);
+		return res < 0 ? res : ulength;
+	} else {
+		*newbuffer = PyMem_Malloc((size_t)ulength);
+		if (*newbuffer == NULL)
+			return MP_MEMORY_ERROR;
+		res = _conn_recvall(conn->handle, *newbuffer, (size_t)ulength);
+		return res < 0 ? (Py_ssize_t)res : (Py_ssize_t)ulength;
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check whether any data is available for reading -- neg timeout blocks
+ */
+
+static int
+conn_poll(ConnectionObject *conn, double timeout)
+{
+	int res;
+	fd_set rfds;
+
+	FD_ZERO(&rfds);
+	FD_SET((SOCKET)conn->handle, &rfds);
+
+	if (timeout < 0.0) {
+		res = select((int)conn->handle+1, &rfds, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	} else {
+		struct timeval tv;
+		tv.tv_sec = (long)timeout;
+		tv.tv_usec = (long)((timeout - tv.tv_sec) * 1e6 + 0.5);
+		res = select((int)conn->handle+1, &rfds, NULL, NULL, &tv);
+	}
+
+	if (res < 0) {
+		return MP_SOCKET_ERROR;
+	} else if (FD_ISSET(conn->handle, &rfds)) {
+		return TRUE;
+	} else {
+		assert(res == 0);
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * "connection.h" defines the Connection type using defs above
+ */
+
+#define CONNECTION_NAME "Connection"
+#define CONNECTION_TYPE ConnectionType
+
+#include "connection.h"
diff --git a/Modules/_multiprocessing/win32_functions.c b/Modules/_multiprocessing/win32_functions.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bb1134
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_multiprocessing/win32_functions.c
@@ -0,0 +1,260 @@
+/*
+ * Win32 functions used by multiprocessing package
+ *
+ * win32_functions.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, R Oudkerk --- see COPYING.txt
+ */
+
+#include "multiprocessing.h"
+
+
+#define WIN32_FUNCTION(func) \
+    {#func, (PyCFunction)win32_ ## func, METH_VARARGS | METH_STATIC, ""}
+
+#define WIN32_CONSTANT(fmt, con) \
+    PyDict_SetItemString(Win32Type.tp_dict, #con, Py_BuildValue(fmt, con))
+
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_CloseHandle(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	HANDLE hObject;
+	BOOL success;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, F_HANDLE, &hObject))
+		return NULL;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	success = CloseHandle(hObject); 
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (!success)
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_ConnectNamedPipe(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	HANDLE hNamedPipe;
+	LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped;
+	BOOL success;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, F_HANDLE F_POINTER, 
+			      &hNamedPipe, &lpOverlapped))
+		return NULL;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	success = ConnectNamedPipe(hNamedPipe, lpOverlapped);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (!success)
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_CreateFile(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	LPCTSTR lpFileName;
+	DWORD dwDesiredAccess;
+	DWORD dwShareMode;
+	LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes;
+	DWORD dwCreationDisposition;
+	DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes;
+	HANDLE hTemplateFile;
+	HANDLE handle;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s" F_DWORD F_DWORD F_POINTER 
+			      F_DWORD F_DWORD F_HANDLE,
+			      &lpFileName, &dwDesiredAccess, &dwShareMode, 
+			      &lpSecurityAttributes, &dwCreationDisposition, 
+			      &dwFlagsAndAttributes, &hTemplateFile))
+		return NULL;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	handle = CreateFile(lpFileName, dwDesiredAccess, 
+			    dwShareMode, lpSecurityAttributes, 
+			    dwCreationDisposition, 
+			    dwFlagsAndAttributes, hTemplateFile);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	return Py_BuildValue(F_HANDLE, handle);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_CreateNamedPipe(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	LPCTSTR lpName;
+	DWORD dwOpenMode;
+	DWORD dwPipeMode;
+	DWORD nMaxInstances;
+	DWORD nOutBufferSize;
+	DWORD nInBufferSize;
+	DWORD nDefaultTimeOut;
+	LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes;
+	HANDLE handle;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s" F_DWORD F_DWORD F_DWORD 
+			      F_DWORD F_DWORD F_DWORD F_POINTER,
+			      &lpName, &dwOpenMode, &dwPipeMode, 
+			      &nMaxInstances, &nOutBufferSize, 
+			      &nInBufferSize, &nDefaultTimeOut,
+			      &lpSecurityAttributes))
+		return NULL;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	handle = CreateNamedPipe(lpName, dwOpenMode, dwPipeMode, 
+				 nMaxInstances, nOutBufferSize, 
+				 nInBufferSize, nDefaultTimeOut,
+				 lpSecurityAttributes);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	return Py_BuildValue(F_HANDLE, handle);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_ExitProcess(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	UINT uExitCode;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "I", &uExitCode))
+		return NULL;
+
+	ExitProcess(uExitCode);
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_GetLastError(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	return Py_BuildValue(F_DWORD, GetLastError());
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_OpenProcess(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	DWORD dwDesiredAccess;
+	BOOL bInheritHandle;
+	DWORD dwProcessId;
+	HANDLE handle;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, F_DWORD "i" F_DWORD, 
+			      &dwDesiredAccess, &bInheritHandle, &dwProcessId))
+		return NULL;
+
+	handle = OpenProcess(dwDesiredAccess, bInheritHandle, dwProcessId);    
+	if (handle == NULL)
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	return Py_BuildValue(F_HANDLE, handle);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_SetNamedPipeHandleState(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	HANDLE hNamedPipe;
+	PyObject *oArgs[3];
+	DWORD dwArgs[3], *pArgs[3] = {NULL, NULL, NULL};
+	int i;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, F_HANDLE "OOO", 
+			      &hNamedPipe, &oArgs[0], &oArgs[1], &oArgs[2]))
+		return NULL;
+
+	PyErr_Clear();
+
+	for (i = 0 ; i < 3 ; i++) {
+		if (oArgs[i] != Py_None) {
+			dwArgs[i] = PyInt_AsUnsignedLongMask(oArgs[i]);
+			if (PyErr_Occurred())
+				return NULL;
+			pArgs[i] = &dwArgs[i];
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!SetNamedPipeHandleState(hNamedPipe, pArgs[0], pArgs[1], pArgs[2]))
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+win32_WaitNamedPipe(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	LPCTSTR lpNamedPipeName;
+	DWORD nTimeOut;
+	BOOL success;
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s" F_DWORD, &lpNamedPipeName, &nTimeOut))
+		return NULL;
+
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	success = WaitNamedPipe(lpNamedPipeName, nTimeOut);
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
+	if (!success)
+		return PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);
+
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+static PyMethodDef win32_methods[] = {
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(CloseHandle),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(GetLastError),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(OpenProcess),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(ExitProcess),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(ConnectNamedPipe),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(CreateFile),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(CreateNamedPipe),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(SetNamedPipeHandleState),
+	WIN32_FUNCTION(WaitNamedPipe),
+	{NULL}
+};
+
+
+PyTypeObject Win32Type = {
+	PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
+};
+
+
+PyObject *
+create_win32_namespace(void)
+{
+	Win32Type.tp_name = "_multiprocessing.win32";
+	Win32Type.tp_methods = win32_methods;
+	if (PyType_Ready(&Win32Type) < 0)
+		return NULL;
+	Py_INCREF(&Win32Type);
+
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, ERROR_PIPE_BUSY);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, ERROR_PIPE_CONNECTED);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, ERROR_SEM_TIMEOUT);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, GENERIC_READ);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, GENERIC_WRITE);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, INFINITE);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, NMPWAIT_WAIT_FOREVER);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, OPEN_EXISTING);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PIPE_ACCESS_INBOUND);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PIPE_READMODE_MESSAGE);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PIPE_UNLIMITED_INSTANCES);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PIPE_WAIT);
+	WIN32_CONSTANT(F_DWORD, PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS);
+
+	WIN32_CONSTANT("i", NULL);
+
+	return (PyObject*)&Win32Type;
+}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 44bebab..87a5594 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1236,6 +1236,58 @@
         # Thomas Heller's _ctypes module
         self.detect_ctypes(inc_dirs, lib_dirs)
 
+        # Richard Oudkerk's multiprocessing module
+        if platform == 'win32':             # Windows
+            macros = dict()
+            libraries = ['ws2_32']
+
+        elif platform == 'darwin':          # Mac OSX
+            macros = dict(
+                HAVE_SEM_OPEN=1,
+                HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=0,
+                HAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1,
+                HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_GETVALUE=1
+                )
+            libraries = []
+
+        elif platform == 'cygwin':          # Cygwin
+            macros = dict(
+                HAVE_SEM_OPEN=1,
+                HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=1,
+                HAVE_FD_TRANSFER=0,
+                HAVE_BROKEN_SEM_UNLINK=1
+                )
+            libraries = []
+        else:                                   # Linux and other unices
+            macros = dict(
+                HAVE_SEM_OPEN=1,
+                HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=1,
+                HAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1
+                )
+            libraries = ['rt']
+
+        if platform == 'win32':
+            multiprocessing_srcs = [ '_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c',
+                                     '_multiprocessing/semaphore.c',
+                                     '_multiprocessing/pipe_connection.c',
+                                     '_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c',
+                                     '_multiprocessing/win32_functions.c'
+                                   ]
+
+        else:
+            multiprocessing_srcs = [ '_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c',
+                                     '_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c'
+                                   ]
+
+            if macros.get('HAVE_SEM_OPEN', False):
+                multiprocessing_srcs.append('_multiprocessing/semaphore.c')
+
+        exts.append ( Extension('_multiprocessing', multiprocessing_srcs,
+                                 define_macros=macros.items(),
+                                 include_dirs=["Modules/_multiprocessing"]))
+        # End multiprocessing
+
+
         # Platform-specific libraries
         if platform == 'linux2':
             # Linux-specific modules