[3.12] gh-117378: Clear up the NEWS entry wording (GH-126634) (#126669)

miss-islington · gpshead · web-flow · commit 7050aba5d7fb · 2024-11-11T06:48:23.000Z
gh-117378: Clear up the NEWS entry wording (GH-126634) gh-117378: Clear up the NEWS entry wording. Docs are hard. Lets go shopping! (cherry picked from commit 5c488ca) Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-07-01-40-11.gh-issue-117378.o9O5uM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-07-01-40-11.gh-issue-117378.o9O5uM.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ It could also have a side effect of ``""`` remaining in :data:`sys.path` during
 forkserver preload imports instead of the absolute path from :func:`os.getcwd`
 at multiprocessing import time used in the worker ``sys.path``.
 
-Potentially leading to incorrect imports from the wrong location during
-preload.  We are unaware of that actually happening.  The issue was discovered
-by someone observing unexpected preload performance gains.
+The ``sys.path`` differences between phases in the child process could
+potentially have caused preload to import incorrect things from the wrong
+location.  We are unaware of that actually having happened in practice.
 
