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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 697bfef..4b1196b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ However, if you really do need to use some shared data then The ``'d'`` and ``'i'`` arguments used when creating ``num`` and ``arr`` are typecodes of the kind used by the :mod:`array` module: ``'d'`` indicates a - double precision float and ``'i'`` inidicates a signed integer. These shared + double precision float and ``'i'`` indicates a signed integer. These shared objects will be process and thread safe. For more flexibility in using shared memory one can use the @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ object -- see :ref:`multiprocessing-managers`. A bounded semaphore object: a clone of :class:`threading.BoundedSemaphore`. - (On Mac OSX this is indistiguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because + (On Mac OSX this is indistinguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because ``sem_getvalue()`` is not implemented on that platform). .. class:: Condition([lock]) @@ -893,8 +893,8 @@ processes. .. note:: - Although it is posible to store a pointer in shared memory remember that this - will refer to a location in the address space of a specific process. + Although it is possible to store a pointer in shared memory remember that + this will refer to a location in the address space of a specific process. However, the pointer is quite likely to be invalid in the context of a second process and trying to dereference the pointer from the second process may cause a crash. @@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ handler type) for messages from different processes to get mixed up. handler which sends output to :data:`sys.stderr` using format ``'[%(levelname)s/%(processName)s] %(message)s'``. (The logger allows use of the non-standard ``'%(processName)s'`` format.) Message sent to this logger - will not by default propogate to the root logger. + will not by default propagate to the root logger. Note that on Windows child processes will only inherit the level of the parent process's logger -- any other customization of the logger will not be |