Fix #5162. Allow child spawning from Windows services (via pywin32).
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
index d5f3b26..3fca8b1 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@
TERMINATE = 0x10000
WINEXE = (sys.platform == 'win32' and getattr(sys, 'frozen', False))
+ WINSERVICE = sys.executable.lower().endswith("pythonservice.exe")
exit = win32.ExitProcess
close = win32.CloseHandle
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@
# People embedding Python want to modify it.
#
- if sys.executable.lower().endswith('pythonservice.exe'):
+ if WINSERVICE:
_python_exe = os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, 'python.exe')
else:
_python_exe = sys.executable
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@
if _logger is not None:
d['log_level'] = _logger.getEffectiveLevel()
- if not WINEXE:
+ if not WINEXE and not WINSERVICE:
main_path = getattr(sys.modules['__main__'], '__file__', None)
if not main_path and sys.argv[0] not in ('', '-c'):
main_path = sys.argv[0]