From b9cd38f928f7eb4e18ad4b63e5c49c05c626c33e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:13:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-32146: Add documentation about frozen executables on Unix
 (GH-5850)

(cherry picked from commit bab4bbb4c9cd5d25ede21a1b8c99d56e3b8dae9d)

Co-authored-by: Bo Bayles <bbayles@gmail.com>
---
 Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst                            | 7 +++++++
 .../next/Library/2018-02-25-10-17-23.bpo-32146.xOzUFW.rst  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-25-10-17-23.bpo-32146.xOzUFW.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 504f3a1c3c3..c50625dda32 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -186,6 +186,13 @@ A library which wants to use a particular start method should probably
 use :func:`get_context` to avoid interfering with the choice of the
 library user.
 
+.. warning::
+
+   The ``'spawn'`` and ``'forkserver'`` start methods cannot currently
+   be used with "frozen" executables (i.e., binaries produced by
+   packages like **PyInstaller** and **cx_Freeze**) on Unix.
+   The ``'fork'`` start method does work.
+
 
 Exchanging objects between processes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-25-10-17-23.bpo-32146.xOzUFW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-25-10-17-23.bpo-32146.xOzUFW.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f071c710180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-25-10-17-23.bpo-32146.xOzUFW.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Document the interaction between frozen executables and the spawn and
+forkserver start methods in multiprocessing.