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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/socketserver.rst4
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
index 1b8d7ff..dac9281 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
@@ -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`.
+