[Python-checkins] [docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170)

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Thu Sep 23 17:03:18 EDT 2021


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/af90b5498b8c6acd67b50fdad007d26dfd1c5823
commit: af90b5498b8c6acd67b50fdad007d26dfd1c5823
branch: main
author: Sam Sneddon <me at gsnedders.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz at langa.pl>
date: 2021-09-23T23:03:13+02:00
summary:

[docs] Update documentation for `multiprocessing.get_start_method` (GH-18170)

files:
M Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 8b76058bde04a..c5d07dc595484 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1030,7 +1030,13 @@ Miscellaneous
 
    The return value can be ``'fork'``, ``'spawn'``, ``'forkserver'``
    or ``None``.  ``'fork'`` is the default on Unix, while ``'spawn'`` is
-   the default on Windows.
+   the default on Windows and macOS.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 3.8
+
+   On macOS, the *spawn* start method is now the default.  The *fork* start
+   method should be considered unsafe as it can lead to crashes of the
+   subprocess. See :issue:`33725`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.4
 



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