Why does this launch an infinite loop of new processes?

[Joshua Landau]

On 21 December 2011 18:59, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to understand the multiprocessing module, and I tried some
> simple code:
>
> import multiprocessing
> def f():
>        print('bla bla')
> p = multiprocessing.Process(target=f)
> p.start()
> p.join()
>
> And the result is a new process that spawns a new process that spawns a
> new process ad infinitum until I log out and the OS forcefully
> terminates all my user processes. I have no idea what is happening; I
> expected it to just print the string and terminate.


Eh? It works for me. Python 3.2 + 2.7
Is this the full code?
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