[issue8713] multiprocessing needs option to eschew fork() under Linux

[Jesse Noller]

Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Charles-François Natali wrote:

While I would tend to agree with you in theory - I don't think we should make it the default - at least not without a LOT of lead time. There's a surprising amount of code relying on the current behavior that I think the best course is to enable this option, and change the docs to steer users in this direction.

For users jumping from 2.x into 3.x, I think the less surprises they have the better, and changing the default behavior of the stdlib module in this was would qualify as surprising.

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