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| author | Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com> | 2009-06-29 18:20:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com> | 2009-06-29 18:20:34 (GMT) |
| commit | d4792cd84ec3977a754eb670d5272b087885303b (patch) | |
| tree | 6af8437b96e3f037667722b545a04914e1fda4ef | |
| parent | 3fbcc60eb859b00f4310e028da0ba6edba35f7c8 (diff) | |
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Bug 5906: add a documentation note for unix daemons vs. multiprocessing daemons
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 3d24202..eb5ddff 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the Note that a daemonic process is not allowed to create child processes. Otherwise a daemonic process would leave its children orphaned if it gets - terminated when its parent process exits. + terminated when its parent process exits. Additionally, these are **not** + Unix daemons or services, they are normal processes that will be + terminated (and not joined) if non-dameonic processes have exited. In addition to the :class:`Threading.Thread` API, :class:`Process` objects also support the following attributes and methods: |