Commit d4792cd8 authored by Jesse Noller's avatar Jesse Noller

Bug 5906: add a documentation note for unix daemons vs. multiprocessing daemons

parent 3fbcc60e
......@@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ 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:
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