From aa753f72452d4a6aa9ff05dc4207a9e3a7a51a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith [Google LLC]" Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:13:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Sync whatsnew with the edit I made in the 3.12 backport PR. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index 2a186e8c8484ec..700daea75f12db 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -1071,7 +1071,9 @@ Deprecated with the POSIX platform when doing so. Even if such code *appeared* to work. We added the warning to to raise awareness as issues encounted by code doing this are becoming more frequent. See the :func:`os.fork` documentation for - more details. + more details along with `this discussion on fork being incompatible with threads + `_ for *why* we're now surfacing this + longstanding platform compatibility problem to developers. When this warning appears due to usage of :mod:`multiprocessing` or :mod:`concurrent.futures` the fix is to use a different