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authorPhil Connell <pconnell@gmail.com>2019-11-15 16:56:03 (GMT)
committerMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-11-15 16:56:03 (GMT)
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bpo-38778: Document that os.fork is not allowed in subinterpreters (GH-17123)
Small docs update for [bpo-34651](https://bugs.python.org/issue34651). Other references to fork (e.g. the PyOS.*Fork functions or discussions of fork() when embedding Python) point back to os.fork, so I don't think any other updates are needed. https://bugs.python.org/issue38778 Automerge-Triggered-By: @ericsnowcurrently
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+Document the fact that :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised if :meth:`os.fork` is called in a subinterpreter.