Richard Oudkerk added the comment: I think this is a duplicate of Issue #15646 which has been fixed in the 2.7 and 3.x branches.
If you run Lib/test/mp_fork_bomb.py you should get a RuntimeError with a helpful message telling you to use the 'if __name__ == "__main__"' idiom. ---------- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> pending superseder: -> multiprocessing can do equivalent of a fork bomb on Windows _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16246> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com