Safe to call multiprocessing from a thread in Python?

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Safe to call multiprocessing from a thread in Python?

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Chapters
00:00 Question
01:49 Accepted answer (Score 22)
05:47 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4643...

Question links:
[https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/...]: https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/...
[Is there a safe way to create a subprocess from a thread in python?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463...
[documentation]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/thread...
[https://bugs.python.org/issue6721]: https://bugs.python.org/issue6721

Accepted answer links:
[fork(2)]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/for...
[signal(7)]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sig...
[execve(2)]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/exe...
[documentation]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/multip...
[now possible to change the start method]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/multip...

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