I suspect it's not exactly trivial. I haven't worked with IPC in Python, but on the C level, it's a bit easier to communicate between processes related via a fo

I suspect it's not exactly trivial. I haven't worked with IPC in Python, but on the C level, it's a bit easier to communicate between processes related via a fork() than separately spawned processes. I suspect adding exec() support on the linux side would affect a large number of small details in the existing code. Not something you'd complete in the duration of writing a short blog post.