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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 96bc6c1..4966be3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -569,8 +569,15 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the .. attribute:: exitcode The child's exit code. This will be ``None`` if the process has not yet - terminated. A negative value *-N* indicates that the child was terminated - by signal *N*. + terminated. + + If the child's :meth:`run` method returned normally, the exit code + will be 0. If it terminated via :func:`sys.exit` with an integer + argument *N*, the exit code will be *N*. + + If the child terminated due to an exception not caught within + :meth:`run`, the exit code will be 1. If it was terminated by + signal *N*, the exit code will be the negative value *-N*. .. attribute:: authkey @@ -1095,6 +1095,7 @@ Vincent Marchetti David Marek Doug Marien Sven Marnach +John Marshall Alex Martelli Dennis Mårtensson Anthony Martin |