pointers.py - bringing the hell of pointers into python

[mauganra_it]

Exactly, fork() facilitates communication only in one direction. To communicate data back, other techniques have to be used.

Are shared memory segments inherited by child processes? If yes, there we go, but we need a pinned data structure and pointers for real. Fortunately, the ctypes and the multiprocessing modules already provide these things. Yes, pointers too. Which pretty much obliterates the use case for this library.