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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 937da00..1c30d43 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ Significantly Improved Library Modules: * Single-dispatch generic functions (:pep:`443`) * SHA-3 (Keccak) support for :mod:`hashlib`. * TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for :mod:`ssl`. +* :mod:`multiprocessing` now has option to avoid using :func:`os.fork` + on Unix (:issue:`8713`). Security improvements: @@ -254,6 +256,17 @@ mmap objects can now be weakref'ed. (Contributed by Valerie Lambert in :issue:`4885`.) +multiprocessing +--------------- + +On Unix two new *start methods* have been added for starting processes +using :mod:`multiprocessing`. These make the mixing of processes with +threads more robust. See :issue:`8713`. + +Also, except when using the old *fork* start method, child processes +will no longer inherit unneeded handles/file descriptors from their parents. + + poplib ------ |