Issue #6064: Add a `daemon` keyword argument to the threading.Thread

and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
thread/process.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index cc40a2a..9bdbf54 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the
 :class:`Process` and exceptions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-.. class:: Process([group[, target[, name[, args[, kwargs]]]]])
+.. class:: Process([group[, target[, name[, args[, kwargs]]]]], *, daemon=None)
 
    Process objects represent activity that is run in a separate process. The
    :class:`Process` class has equivalents of all the methods of
@@ -312,13 +312,19 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the
    :sub:`1`,N\ :sub:`2`,...,N\ :sub:`k` is a sequence of integers whose length
    is determined by the *generation* of the process.  *args* is the argument
    tuple for the target invocation.  *kwargs* is a dictionary of keyword
-   arguments for the target invocation.  By default, no arguments are passed to
-   *target*.
+   arguments for the target invocation.  If provided, the keyword-only *daemon* argument
+   sets the process :attr:`daemon` flag to ``True`` or ``False``.  If ``None``
+   (the default), this flag will be inherited from the creating process.
+
+   By default, no arguments are passed to *target*.
 
    If a subclass overrides the constructor, it must make sure it invokes the
    base class constructor (:meth:`Process.__init__`) before doing anything else
    to the process.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+      Added the *daemon* argument.
+
    .. method:: run()
 
       Method representing the process's activity.