Title: Better fork support in cached FastPath instances · Issue #146228 · python/cpython · GitHub
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Description: In python/importlib_metadata#520, we learned that the FastPath caches can cause problems with open zip files at the fork boundary. The fix was released in importlib_metadata 8.7.1. Let's sync that to CPython. Linked PRs gh-146231
Open Graph Description: In python/importlib_metadata#520, we learned that the FastPath caches can cause problems with open zip files at the fork boundary. The fix was released in importlib_metadata 8.7.1. Let's sync that ...
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