From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:39:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170) (GH... X-Git-Tag: v3.8.13~35 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8344fef7dc2cf0ef8a33449df9c165247fb37a3a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170) (GH-28535) (cherry picked from commit af90b5498b8c6acd67b50fdad007d26dfd1c5823) Co-authored-by: Sam Sneddon --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 5777344953a7..360cd89fe91d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1019,7 +1019,13 @@ Miscellaneous The return value can be ``'fork'``, ``'spawn'``, ``'forkserver'`` or ``None``. ``'fork'`` is the default on Unix, while ``'spawn'`` is - the default on Windows. + the default on Windows and macOS. + +.. versionchanged:: 3.8 + + 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`. .. versionadded:: 3.4