[docs] [issue27508] process thread with implicit join is killed unexpectedly

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

On my gentoo system it prints hi four times in 2.7, and 3.2 through 3.6.  I suspect multiprocessing is killing threads, daemon or not, when the main process thread ends.  I expect that's a feature, although I didn't find it documented.

Ah, found the explanation: issue 18966.  Antoine indicates this could indeed be considered a bug but is part of a larger issue.  If we aren't going to fix it, we should probably document it.

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assignee:  -> docs at python
components: +Documentation -Library (Lib)
nosy: +docs at python, r.david.murray
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.6

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