[issue5906] Risk of confusion in multiprocessing module - daemonic processes

[Pascal Chambon]

Pascal Chambon <chambon.pascal at gmail.com> added the comment:

I've just crossed again the doc of the daemon flag (http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html), and it's still quite confusing to newcomers.

daemon
    The process’s daemon flag, a Boolean value. This must be set before start() is called.
    The initial value is inherited from the creating process. [1]
    When a process exits, it attempts to terminate all of its daemonic child processes.

[1] this sentence is weird: since daemonic processes are not allowed to have children, isn't this flag always False in a new Process instance ?
[2] typo, it meant "all of its NON-daemonic child processes" instead, didn't it ?

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resolution: fixed -> 
status: closed -> open

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