[issue17399] test_multiprocessing hang on Windows, non-sockets

[Richard Oudkerk]

Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

> Both 3.2 and 3.3 give essentially the same traceback as 3.2 did before, 
> both with installed python and yesterdays debug builds.

It looks like on your machine socket handles are not correctly inherited by child processes -- I had assumed that they always would be.

I suppose to fix things for 3.2 and earlier it would be necessary to backport the functionality of socket.socket.share() and socket.fromshare() from 3.3.

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