Message 378947 - Python tracker

Message378947

Author	ronaldoussoren
Recipients	Mirko Friedenhagen, barry, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date	2020-10-19.12:29:59
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Message-id	<1603110599.7.0.924406200849.issue31818@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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I'm in favour of closing this issue. If anything needs to be done its adding a warning to the documentation of os.fork() to the effect that doing substantial work in the child can be problematic on macOS. Maybe something like: .. warning:: On macOS the child proces might crash if the parent proces uses higher level system APIs before calling this function. This includes, but is not limited to, using :mod:`urllib.request` in the parent process.

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I'm in favour of closing this issue.

If anything needs to be done its adding a warning to the documentation of os.fork() to the effect that doing substantial work in the child can be problematic on macOS. Maybe something like:

.. warning:: On macOS the child proces might crash if the parent
   proces uses higher level system APIs before calling this function. This
   includes, but is not limited to, using :mod:`urllib.request` in the parent
   process.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-10-19 12:29:59	ronaldoussoren	set	recipients: + ronaldoussoren, barry, vstinner, ned.deily, Mirko Friedenhagen
2020-10-19 12:29:59	ronaldoussoren	set	messageid: <1603110599.7.0.924406200849.issue31818@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2020-10-19 12:29:59	ronaldoussoren	link	issue31818 messages
2020-10-19 12:29:59	ronaldoussoren	create