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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-09-23 21:39:26 (GMT) |
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[docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170) (GH-28535)
(cherry picked from commit af90b5498b8c6acd67b50fdad007d26dfd1c5823)
Co-authored-by: Sam Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 5777344..360cd89 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1019,7 +1019,13 @@ Miscellaneous The return value can be ``'fork'``, ``'spawn'``, ``'forkserver'`` or ``None``. ``'fork'`` is the default on Unix, while ``'spawn'`` is - the default on Windows. + the default on Windows and macOS. + +.. versionchanged:: 3.8 + + On macOS, the *spawn* start method is now the default. The *fork* start + method should be considered unsafe as it can lead to crashes of the + subprocess. See :issue:`33725`. .. versionadded:: 3.4 |