gh-86128: Add warning to ThreadPoolExecutor docs about atexit behaviour (GH-94008)

diff --git a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst
@@ -149,6 +149,13 @@ And::
    An :class:`Executor` subclass that uses a pool of at most *max_workers*
    threads to execute calls asynchronously.
 
+   All threads enqueued to ``ThreadPoolExecutor`` will be joined before the
+   interpreter can exit. Note that the exit handler which does this is
+   executed *before* any exit handlers added using `atexit`. This means
+   exceptions in the main thread must be caught and handled in order to
+   signal threads to exit gracefully. For this reason, it is recommended
+   that ``ThreadPoolExecutor`` not be used for long-running tasks.
+
    *initializer* is an optional callable that is called at the start of
    each worker thread; *initargs* is a tuple of arguments passed to the
    initializer.  Should *initializer* raise an exception, all currently

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-06-19-18-18-22.gh-issue-86128.39DDTD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-06-19-18-18-22.gh-issue-86128.39DDTD.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Document a limitation in ThreadPoolExecutor where its exit handler is executed before any handlers in atexit.