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Author pitrou
Recipients davin, njs, pitrou, sbt, yselivanov
Date 2017-05-23.08:04:03
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The motivation for that decisions might seem a bit secondary, but I was worried that libraries who want to register a multiprocessing-based at-fork handler would always have to pay the import cost for multiprocessing.  With the registration logic inside the posix module, the import cost goes away.
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2017-05-23 08:04:03pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, njs, sbt, yselivanov, davin
2017-05-23 08:04:03pitrousetmessageid: <1495526643.8.0.0530216484359.issue29828@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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