From a24d2d82746fcdeddd635394b22e5ab480cbad4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Berker Peksag Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:22:22 +0300 Subject: Issue #10673: Document that Process.exitcode can be used to determine timeout Patch by Tom Clark. --- Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index d20098f..a5912f7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the If the optional argument *timeout* is ``None`` (the default), the method blocks until the process whose :meth:`join` method is called terminates. If *timeout* is a positive number, it blocks at most *timeout* seconds. + Note that the method returns ``None`` if its process terminates or if the + method times out. Check the process's :attr:`exitcode` to determine if + it terminated. A process can be joined many times. -- cgit v0.12