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devel: handle multiprocessing regression in Python 3.14 #626

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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion devel/management/commands/archweb_inotify.py
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Expand Up @@ -78,7 +78,14 @@ def run():
if retry_count == self.retry_limit:
logger.error('Unable to update database, exceeded maximum retries')

process = multiprocessing.Process(target=run)
# Python 3.14 changed the non-macOS POSIX default to forkserver
# but the code in this module does not work with it
# See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/125714
if multiprocessing.get_start_method() == 'forkserver':
_mp_context = multiprocessing.get_context(method='fork')
else:
_mp_context = multiprocessing.get_context()
process = _mp_context.Process(target=run)
process.start()
process.join()
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