[issue40255] Fixing Copy on Writes from reference counting

[Inada Naoki]

Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> added the comment:

>> Fast shutdown option
>
> You can use os._exit(0).

Yes. Instagram use it as `atexit.register(os._exit, 0)`.

https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-collection-at-instagram-4dca40b29172

I think this hack can be supported in multiprocessing module in some way.

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