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authorRichard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com>2013-08-14 14:35:41 (GMT)
committerRichard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com>2013-08-14 14:35:41 (GMT)
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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()