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+Reinitialize logging.Handler locks in forked child processes instead of
+attempting to acquire them all in the parent before forking only to be
+released in the child process. The acquire/release pattern was leading to
+deadlocks in code that has implemented any form of chained logging handlers
+that depend upon one another as the lock acquision order cannot be
+guaranteed.