[issue9573] importing a module that executes fork() raises RuntimeError

Gregory P. Smith report at bugs.python.org
Tue Aug 17 21:59:28 CEST 2010


Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> added the comment:

Are there any applications out there that actually rely on forking during import?

(someone discovered this bug... i'd like to know why.  i think its a disgusting thing to do but never explicitly disallowed it in the past)

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