Commit bab4bbb4 authored by Bo Bayles's avatar Bo Bayles Committed by Victor Stinner

bpo-32146: Add documentation about frozen executables on Unix (GH-5850)

parent 572168a0
......@@ -186,6 +186,13 @@ A library which wants to use a particular start method should probably
use :func:`get_context` to avoid interfering with the choice of the
library user.
.. warning::
The ``'spawn'`` and ``'forkserver'`` start methods cannot currently
be used with "frozen" executables (i.e., binaries produced by
packages like **PyInstaller** and **cx_Freeze**) on Unix.
The ``'fork'`` start method does work.
Exchanging objects between processes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Document the interaction between frozen executables and the spawn and
forkserver start methods in multiprocessing.
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