From: Gregory P. Smith Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 19:03:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: link to the discussion thread from whatsnew X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e38d7104b8f245e5db6d487932c44edf0d2c4762;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git link to the discussion thread from whatsnew Include the link to the discussion in the what's new text per @malemberg's comment on. https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/109767 (i'll follow up with a PR to main to include this edit there as well) --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index b55c57fb3406..f5f39c7ab9c4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -1071,7 +1071,9 @@ Deprecated with the POSIX platform when doing so. Even if such code *appeared* to work. We added the warning to to raise awareness as issues encounted by code doing this are becoming more frequent. See the :func:`os.fork` documentation for - more details. + more details along with `this discussion on fork being incompatible with threads + `_ for *why* we're now surfacing this + longstanding platform compatibility problem to developers. When this warning appears due to usage of :mod:`multiprocessing` or :mod:`concurrent.futures` the fix is to use a different