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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-10-10 22:20:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-10-10 22:20:52 (GMT) |
| commit | bcd8ac396426f4bf649266aec5bbcf46f851a188 (patch) | |
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| parent | cf8016a8d6b3fed550ed961ffd957ab3d19f04da (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 66703,66708 via svnmerge from
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r66703 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-09-30 15:41:13 -0500 (Tue, 30 Sep 2008) | 6 lines
Works around issue3863: freebsd4/5/6 and os2emx are known to have OS bugs when
calling fork() from a child thread. This disables that unit test (with a note
printed to stderr) on those platforms.
A caveat about buggy platforms is added to the os.fork documentation.
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r66708 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-09-30 22:25:25 -0500 (Tue, 30 Sep 2008) | 9 lines
fix for issue 3862: test_array fails FreeBSD 7 amd64
FreeBSD 7's underlying malloc() is behaves differently to earlier versions
and seriously overcommits available memory on amd64. This may affect
other 64bit platforms in some circumstances, so the scale of the
problematic test is wound back.
Patch by Mark Dickinson, reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 82a5b98..81a3f35 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1389,6 +1389,10 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. Fork a child process. Return ``0`` in the child and the child's process id in the parent. If an error occurs :exc:`OSError` is raised. + + Note that some platforms including FreeBSD <= 6.3, Cygwin and OS/2 EMX have + known issues when using fork() from a thread. + Availability: Unix. |