Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:

The launchers have inheritance enabled (for the duplicated standard handles, 
which should be made inheritable via SetHandleInformation instead, but that's a 
separate issue). However, multiprocessing doesn't use inheritable handles. 
Spawning processes with inheritance would be a problem in a general-purpose 
library. Instead it depends on either the parent manually duplicating the 
handle to the child or vice versa (via the child opening the parent PID that's 
passed to it). The problem for a virtual environment that's using the launcher 
is the former, where the parent duplicates to the child (e.g. for the SemLock 
semaphore). We need a way to allow multiprocessing to spawn the real python.exe 
instead of the launcher executable that's set as sys.executable.

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