New submission from Richard Oudkerk: If the "if __name__ == '__main__'" idiom is not used on Windows you can get the recursive starting of new processes.
This is because importing the main module in a child process starts a new child process as a side effect. There is a test intended to prevent this and raise RuntimeError instead, but it is currently ineffective. ---------- messages: 168189 nosy: sbt priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: multiprocessing can do equivalent of a fork bomb on Windows type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15646> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
