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gh-155717: Determine multiprocessing's default start method lazily (GH-159254)
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gh-155717: use `spawn` as the default start method for read-only filesystems (#155827)
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gh-149879: Fix multiprocessing tests on Cygwin (#150031)
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gh-140814: Fix freeze_support() setting start method as side effect (GH-144608)
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gh-141860: Add on_error= keyword arg to `multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload` (GH-141859)
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gh-80334: fix multiprocessing.freeze_support for other spawn platforms (GH-134462)
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gh-84559: Change the multiprocessing start method default to `forkserver` (GH-101556)
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gh-120417: Add #noqa to used imports in the stdlib (#120421)
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gh-84559: Remove the new multiprocessing warning, too disruptive. (#101551)
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GH-84559: Deprecate fork being the multiprocessing default. (#100618)
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gh-90549: Fix leak of global named resources using multiprocessing spawn (#30617)
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bpo-39244: multiprocessing return default start method first on macOS (GH-18625)
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bpo-33725: multiprocessing uses spawn by default on macOS (GH-13603)
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bpo-36888: Add multiprocessing.parent_process() (GH-13247)
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Simplify __all__ in multiprocessing (GH-6856)
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bpo-30296 Remove unnecessary tuples, lists, sets, and dicts (#1489)
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bpo-29762: More use "raise from None". (#569)
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Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
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Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some multiprocessing objects such as locks.
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Issue #28053: Applying refactorings, docs and other cleanup to follow.
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Issue #18999: Make multiprocessing use context objects.
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