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> Yes I know we don't care about Windows for this particular project..
> I think mixing multiprocessing and fork should not harm, but probably
> is unnecessary since I'm already in another process after the fork so
> I can just make it run what I want.
>
> Otherwise is there a way to do same thing only using multiprocessing?
> (running a process that is detachable from the process that created it)
>
I'm afraid there is no way to do that. I'm not even sure if 
multiprocessing.Queue will work if you detach a forked process.