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@@ -1567,6 +1567,8 @@ If you ever encounter a presumed highly unusual situation where you need to
prevent ``vfork()`` from being used by Python, you can set the
:attr:`subprocess._USE_VFORK` attribute to a false value.
+::
+
subprocess._USE_VFORK = False # See CPython issue gh-NNNNNN.
Setting this has no impact on use of ``posix_spawn()`` which could use
@@ -1574,6 +1576,8 @@ Setting this has no impact on use of ``posix_spawn()`` which could use
:attr:`subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN` attribute if you need to prevent use of
that.
+::
+
subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN = False # See CPython issue gh-NNNNNN.
It is safe to set these to false on any Python version. They will have no