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?

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