Ronald Oussoren added the comment:

BTW. I think someone (me?) should write down the problems with using higher 
levels in the API stack w.r.t. os.fork in a PEP-style document. This can then 
be used to decide whether or not we want to use such APIs in the stdlib (and if 
so, what should be changed to avoid crashes).

I'm slighlty in favour of using such APIs if that makes Python better on OSX, 
even if that introduces slight differences w.r.t. Linux (for example, 
multiprocessing could no longer use only os.fork).  The disadvantage is that it 
would no longer be possible to develop and test pre-forking code on OSX before 
deploying to Linux.

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