What fork() Actually Copies
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What fork() actually copies and how it impact your celery service
A configuration flag changed. A boolean. The side effect opened a database connection pool before fork() and took down every Celery worker in production. This is an account of the investigation, the OS internals behind it, and a proposed solution still waiting for staging validation.
