Davin Potts <pyt...@discontinuity.net> added the comment:

Do we really need to disable the running of test_multiprocessing_fork entirely 
on MacOS?

My understanding so far is that not *all* of the system libraries on the mac 
are spinning up threads and so we should expect that there are situations where 
fork alone may be permissible, but of course we don't yet know what those are.  
Pragmatically speaking, I have not yet seen a report of 
test_multiprocessing_fork tests triggering this problem but I would like to 
see/hear that when it is observed (that's my pitch for leaving the tests 
enabled).

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