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[Minor PR] Quotes in documentation changed into code blocks #99536

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Minor formatting fix in documentation
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Expand Up @@ -1567,13 +1567,17 @@ If you ever encounter a presumed highly unusual situation where you need to
prevent ``vfork()`` from being used by Python, you can set the
:attr:`subprocess._USE_VFORK` attribute to a false value.

::

subprocess._USE_VFORK = False # See CPython issue gh-NNNNNN.

Setting this has no impact on use of ``posix_spawn()`` which could use
``vfork()`` internally within its libc implementation. There is a similar
:attr:`subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN` attribute if you need to prevent use of
that.

::

subprocess._USE_POSIX_SPAWN = False # See CPython issue gh-NNNNNN.

It is safe to set these to false on any Python version. They will have no
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