Github user davies commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1643#issuecomment-50718757
Good question, it's dangerous to mix threads and fork(), it may be cause
dead lock in child process. But in this case, because of GIL, then fork()
happens, monitor thread is blocked or sleeping or polling, they are thread
safe, so it will be a problem.
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