[Python-ideas] multiprocessing, freeze support by default for Pool

[Brett Cannon]

I would just open an issues on bugs.python.org for this.

On Wed, 23 May 2018 at 17:54 Bradley Phillips <
bradleyp81+python-ideas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> There are about 347 results for the following query on the google search
> engine:
> "python multiprocessing pyinstaller crash site:stackoverflow.com"
>
> The windows fork bomb is a known frequent occurrence. I know that
> freeze_support is supposed to be called but this issue still catches me out
> most times (and many others).
>
> I propose adding to line 117 of multiprocessing/context.py
>         if (sys.platform == 'win32'):
>             self.freeze_support()
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Brad
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