🐛 Describe the bug

We discovered this incidentally because when Jax is imported, it imports xla, which adds a process level hook that issues a warning if os.fork is used (which is is in some inductor internals). This sent us down the rabbit hole of seeing how this came to be

Callstacks:
https://gist.github.com/ScottTodd/981f1c8696887e0f9aef7fa57adbe84b

Minimal repro showing that import transformers with the listed packages installed causes this. We should avoid triggering this in pytorch and also see if we can excise that probing from transformers.

What is triggering this in torch (with a note it can be removed once a now closed issue is resolved):
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/onnx/_internal/fx/patcher.py#L7

I think there is a laundry list of things that could be improved here but one thing that is causing the badness (in the onnx._internal.fx.patcher).

Some other things that looked suspect while I was poking:

• (torch) The PSA/warning that Jax does about os.fork is not wrong. I haven't looked into it deeply but it seems like it is in some inductor caching layer, and it may be worth doing that a different way.
• (torch) If we need to be doing version probes of installed things, it is extremely costly to do this by way of import foo. Some of these deps are very heavy and make non trivial changes to the environment as part of their bootstrapping.
• (transformers) Same as above but more pointed. This style of code is extremely costly and not what I would expect if doing import transformers https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/utils/generic.py#L31 (will file this in transformers)

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