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multiprocessing child segfault when passing lock as an argument #119413

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It seems that the below code will serialize the pointer to the lock handle over to the child process, and then rebuild the raw pointer in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modules/_multiprocessing/clinic/semaphore.c.h#L331

this then segfaults the child process - which seems to cause new children to spin up.

import multiprocessing
import os

def _init(l):
    print(os.getpid())
    print(l)

def main():
    ctx = multiprocessing.get_context(method="spawn")
    lock = multiprocessing.Lock()
    with ctx.Pool(1, initializer=_init, initargs=(lock,)) as pool:
        ret = pool.map(print, [1])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

CPython versions tested on:

3.10, 3.11

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Output from running 'python -VV' on the command line:

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