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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 43d6eb0..5cd70d9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -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: |