it looks like cpython is improving and cpython 3.10 now uses vfork when launching subprocesses in linux years ago when i first hit this in production, we ended

it looks like cpython is improving and cpython 3.10 now uses vfork when launching subprocesses in linux years ago when i first hit this in production, we ended up working around it by rewriting our application code to use a pure-python library that did the equivalent thing as the separate command line tool we were trying to launch.