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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2023-09-24 17:27:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-09-24 17:27:24 (GMT) |
| commit | e81bd3fa16b05e2f359105eb77da976390488d81 (patch) | |
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Sync whatsnew with the edit I made in the 3.12 backport PR. (#109807)
A post main merge edit to the text was added in the 3.12 backport PR.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/109773/commits/e38d7104b8f245e5db6d487932c44edf0d2c4762
This includes that in main. It's a minor edit over #109767 to resolve the comment there.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index 2a186e8..700daea 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -1071,7 +1071,9 @@ Deprecated with the POSIX platform when doing so. Even if such code *appeared* to work. We added the warning to to raise awareness as issues encounted by code doing this are becoming more frequent. See the :func:`os.fork` documentation for - more details. + more details along with `this discussion on fork being incompatible with threads + <https://discuss.python.org/t/33555>`_ for *why* we're now surfacing this + longstanding platform compatibility problem to developers. When this warning appears due to usage of :mod:`multiprocessing` or :mod:`concurrent.futures` the fix is to use a different |