STDIO hangs forever when the using multiprocessing in tools

[huang-sh]

Describe the bug when multiprocessing in a tool, and start mcp client by STDIO, the mcp server never response.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. write mcp server:

## test_mcp.py
from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP
import multiprocessing as mp


mcp = FastMCP()

@mcp.tool()
def sum() -> int:
    "count number"
    with mp.Pool(processes=2) as pool:
        res =  pool.imap(str, range(10))
        res = list(res)
    return res

if __name__ == '__main__':
    mcp.run()

2. write mcp client usig stdio

## test_client.py
from mcp import ClientSession, StdioServerParameters, types
from mcp.client.stdio import stdio_client

# Create server parameters for stdio connection
server_params = StdioServerParameters(
    command="python",  # Executable
    args=["test_mcp.py"],  # Optional command line arguments
    env=None,  # Optional environment variables
)


async def run():
    async with stdio_client(server_params) as (read, write):
        async with ClientSession(
            read, write
        ) as session:
            # Initialize the connection
            await session.initialize()
            resources = await session.list_resources()
            # List available tools
            tools = await session.list_tools()
            print(tools)
            result = await session.call_tool(
                "sum", 
            )
            print(result)
asyncio.run(run())

3. test running

$ python test_client.py
[05/27/25 15:42:13] INFO     Processing request of type ListResourcesRequest                             server.py:551
                    INFO     Processing request of type ListToolsRequest                                 server.py:551
meta=None nextCursor=None tools=[Tool(name='sum', description='count number', inputSchema={'properties': {}, 'title': 'sumArguments', 'type': 'object'}, annotations=None)]
                    INFO     Processing request of type CallToolRequest                                  server.py:551

The program is stuck here and won't continue running

Version

Name: mcp
Version: 1.9.0
Summary: Model Context Protocol SDK
Home-page: 
Author: Anthropic, PBC.
Author-email: 
License: MIT
Location: /data/software/micromamba/envs/gbi/lib/python3.10/site-packages
Requires: anyio, httpx, httpx-sse, pydantic, pydantic-settings, python-multipart, sse-starlette, starlette, uvicorn
Required-by: camel-ai, cellrank-mcp, fast-agent-mcp, fastmcp, liana-mcp, mcp-server-calculator, scmcp, scmcp-utils, scmcp_shared

[AlokRanjanSwain]

From what I understand multiprocessing is achievable through streamable http only. Which now is available, you can test with that.

[huang-sh]

@AlokRanjanSwain thanks, yes,it is available in streamable http .