Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Hmm... > I don't really like disabling GC, because it has a process-wide side > effect, and hence isn't thread-safe: if another thread forks() or > creates a subprocess right at the wrong time, it could end up with the > GC disabled for good...
That's a problem indeed. Perhaps we need a global "fork lock" shared between subprocess and multiprocessing? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14548> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com