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authorGregory P. Smith ext:(%20%5BGoogle%20Inc.%5D) <greg@krypto.org>2016-06-03 05:44:47 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith ext:(%20%5BGoogle%20Inc.%5D) <greg@krypto.org>2016-06-03 05:44:47 (GMT)
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issue25931: document that socketserver.Forking* are unavailable on platforms
lacking os.fork().
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@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ server classes.
:class:`UDPServer`. Setting the various attributes also changes the
behavior of the underlying server mechanism.
+ :class:`ForkingMixIn` and the Forking classes mentioned below are
+ only available on POSIX platforms that support :func:`~os.fork`.
.. class:: ForkingTCPServer
ForkingUDPServer
@@ -619,3 +621,5 @@ The output of the example should look something like this::
The :class:`ForkingMixIn` class is used in the same way, except that the server
will spawn a new process for each request.
+Available only on POSIX platforms that support :func:`~os.fork`.
+