Author neologix
Date 2011-07-05.16:33:33
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>> We can't do that, it would break existing code.
> I would argue that such code is already broken.

- that's not necessarily true, if your code is carefully designed
- we can't forbid fork() in a multi-threaded application while it's
allowed by POSIX
- backward compatibility is *really* important

>> What do you mean by helper threads?
> multiprocessing uses threads behind the scenes to handle queue traffic and such for individual forked processes. It's something I also wasn't aware of until Antoine pointed it out. It also has its own implementation of atfork hooks in an attempt to handle the locking issue.

I'm curious as to how you'll manage to implement
multiprocessing.queues without threads.
Please open a dedicated issue for this.
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