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author | Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> | 2013-08-14 14:35:41 (GMT) |
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committer | Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> | 2013-08-14 14:35:41 (GMT) |
commit | 84ed9a68bd9a13252b376b21a9167dabae254325 (patch) | |
tree | ec8daa39fcf64b658bddf52f56ae47c0bdc2b091 /Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py | |
parent | d06eeb4a2492b59d34ab69a2046dcae1f10ec593 (diff) | |
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Issue #8713: Support alternative start methods in multiprocessing on Unix.
See http://hg.python.org/sandbox/sbt#spawn
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diff --git a/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py b/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py index 908afe3..017e010 100644 --- a/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py +++ b/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ def foo(): # correctly on Windows. However, we should get a RuntimeError rather # than the Windows equivalent of a fork bomb. +if len(sys.argv) > 1: + multiprocessing.set_start_method(sys.argv[1]) +else: + multiprocessing.set_start_method('spawn') + p = multiprocessing.Process(target=foo) p.start() p.join() |