From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 20:07:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-33725, multiprocessing doc: rephase warning against fork on macOS (GH-13841) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0b2~195 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d74438b633184bbd8d775d7118d6f12f6f825a96;p=python bpo-33725, multiprocessing doc: rephase warning against fork on macOS (GH-13841) Co-Authored-By: Barry Warsaw (cherry picked from commit 1e77ab0a35cf95318bb4893f7253a30f73201163) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 6c07124f97..d8182feab9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ to start a process. These *start methods* are .. versionchanged:: 3.8 - On macOS, *spawn* start method is now the default: *fork* start method is no - longer reliable on macOS, see :issue:`33725`. + On macOS, the *spawn* start method is now the default. The *fork* start + method should be considered unsafe as it can lead to crashes of the + subprocess. See :issue:`33725`. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 *spawn* added on all unix platforms, and *forkserver* added for