[issue9600] multiprocessing Pool instantiation crashes on 64 bit 2.6.6rc1 under Windows 7

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Notice that this is also a duplicate of #9144, which was fixed for 2.7, but nobody bothered to move the fix to the other branches. This goes all back to #7902, which has now introduced an incompatible change into 2.6 (otherwise, changing multiprocessing shouldn't have been necessary, despite that having been wrong all the time). I'll reopen that as release-critical for review.

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nosy: +loewis

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