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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index c223e54..14784fa 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1646,6 +1646,10 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. Fork a child process. Return ``0`` in the child and the child's process id in the parent. If an error occurs :exc:`OSError` is raised. + + Note that some platforms including FreeBSD <= 6.3, Cygwin and OS/2 EMX have + known issues when using fork() from a thread. + Availability: Unix. |