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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/socketserver.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst index 7dc0cc7..28e8a0a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst @@ -153,20 +153,22 @@ Server Objects .. method:: BaseServer.serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5) - Handle requests until an explicit :meth:`shutdown` request. - Poll for shutdown every *poll_interval* seconds. Ignores :attr:`self.timeout`. It also calls - :meth:`service_actions` which may be used by a subclass or Mixin to provide - various cleanup actions. For e.g. ForkingMixin class uses - :meth:`service_actions` to cleanup the zombie child processes. + Handle requests until an explicit :meth:`shutdown` request. Poll for + shutdown every *poll_interval* seconds. Ignores :attr:`self.timeout`. It + also calls :meth:`service_actions`, which may be used by a subclass or mixin + to provide actions specific to a given service. For example, the + :class:`ForkingMixIn` class uses :meth:`service_actions` to clean up zombie + child processes. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 - Added service_actions call to the serve_forever method. + Added ``service_actions`` call to the ``serve_forever`` method. .. method:: BaseServer.service_actions() - This is called by the serve_forever loop. This method is can be overridden - by Mixin's to add cleanup or service specific actions. + This is called in the :meth:`serve_forever` loop. This method is can be + overridden by subclasses or mixin classes to perform actions specific to + a given service, such as cleanup actions. .. versionadded:: 3.3 |