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authorAlexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>2009-07-17 11:43:26 (GMT)
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@@ -372,7 +372,9 @@ 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: