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bpo-33725, multiprocessing doc: rephase warning against fork on macOS (GH-13841)
Co-Authored-By: Barry Warsaw <[email protected]>
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Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

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On macOS, *spawn* start method is now the default: *fork* start method is no
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longer reliable on macOS, see :issue:`33725`.
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On macOS, the *spawn* start method is now the default. The *fork* start
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method should be considered unsafe as it can lead to crashes of the
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subprocess. See :issue:`33725`.
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*spawn* added on all unix platforms, and *forkserver* added for

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