Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using multiprocessing

on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'" idiom.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py b/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py
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+++ b/Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py
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+import multiprocessing
+
+def foo(conn):
+    conn.send("123")
+
+# Because "if __name__ == '__main__'" is missing this will not work
+# correctly on Windows.  However, we should get a RuntimeError rather
+# than the Windows equivalent of a fork bomb.
+
+r, w = multiprocessing.Pipe(False)
+p = multiprocessing.Process(target=foo, args=(w,))
+p.start()
+w.close()
+print(r.recv())
+r.close()
+p.join()