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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2019-06-05 19:59:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-06-05 19:59:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 1e77ab0a35cf95318bb4893f7253a30f73201163 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b45aef988036c6994b21f3784399a1ebb4f2626 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 66c4f3f38b867d8329b28c032bb907fd1a2f22d2 (diff) | |
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bpo-33725, multiprocessing doc: rephase warning against fork on macOS (GH-13841)
Co-Authored-By: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 6c07124..d8182fe 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ to start a process. These *start methods* are .. versionchanged:: 3.8 - On macOS, *spawn* start method is now the default: *fork* start method is no - longer reliable on macOS, see :issue:`33725`. + 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`. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 *spawn* added on all unix platforms, and *forkserver* added for |