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Author davin
Recipients Winterflower, asksol, bcorfman, davin, docs@python, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, jnoller, sandro.tosi, terry.reedy
Date 2015-12-17.01:43:16
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Thank you, Winterflower, for the nudge to see this set right.

In truth, invoking multiprocessing.freeze_support() has zero effect on platforms other than Windows.

This should be reflected in the 2.7 docs as well as the 3.x docs that are still actively being updated.

Attached are 2 patches -- they should be cleanly applied to the 2.7, 3.5, and default (3.6) branches.  This change clarifies the last line of existing documentation around freeze_support() as well as clearly states what I mentioned above.
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2015-12-17 01:43:19davinsetrecipients: + davin, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, bcorfman, jnoller, eric.araujo, asksol, sandro.tosi, docs@python, Winterflower
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