From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:39:08 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170) (GH... X-Git-Tag: v3.9.8~133 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b97f1f82a313918dfdddec8b3492728c8dfae255;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170) (GH-28534) (cherry picked from commit af90b5498b8c6acd67b50fdad007d26dfd1c5823) Co-authored-by: Sam Sneddon --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 57a07dc1070e..7588e1ddb80a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1030,7 +1030,13 @@ 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