[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I propose closing this as 3th-party or out-of-date: 1) The crash in _scproxy is due to limitations in Apple's libraries, in particular they don't work in child processes created with os.fork() without calling execv*() 2) The primary way to run into this

[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

ThePokestarFan added the comment: Still present in python 3.8 and issue 38658. Another workaround is in https://bugs.python.org/issue30385#msg293958 -- nosy: +ThePokestarFan versions: +Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker

[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

triccare triccare added the comment: I have run into this bug which can be reliably reproduced by importing tkinter. However, I have found another workaround if one does not want to deal with the environmental variable and may point to a possible bug fix. Before forking,

[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

Change by Eitan Adler : -- nosy: +eadler ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

Changes by Ned Deily : -- priority: low -> normal stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

Evan Jones added the comment: This is effectively the same as issue 27126. The discussion there convinced me that this may not be working around, since it isn't the only place this can happen! This same crash, caused by libdispatch not being fork compatible, also happens with sqlite and tk.

[issue13829] exception error in _scproxy.so when called after fork

R. David Murray added the comment: Why is it out of date? Has it been fixed? Has apple changed their abort policy? Obviously it isn't high priority, though :) -- assignee: ronaldoussoren -> nosy: +r.david.murray priority: normal -> low resolution: out of date -> status: closed ->