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+- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
+  from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
+
 - Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
 
 - Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and