[issue31818] [macOS] _scproxy.get_proxies() crash -- get_proxies() is not fork-safe?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org> added the comment:

I agree that we should close this issue, possibly with a documentation fix.  I wrote a blog posting about my investigations:

https://wefearchange.org/2018/11/forkmacos.rst.html

I don't think there's really much Python itself can do, and developers will just have to know that fork-without-exec is pretty much unsafe on macOS.

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