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Clarify the default setting for daemon_threads.
authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:29:42 +0000 (14:29 +0000)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:29:42 +0000 (14:29 +0000)
Doc/lib/libsocksvr.tex

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@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ to behave on an abrupt shutdown. The \class{ThreadingMixIn} class
 defines an attribute \var{daemon_threads}, which indicates whether
 or not the server should wait for thread termination. You should
 set the flag explicitly if you would like threads to behave
-autonomously.
+autonomously; the default is \constant{False}, meaning that Python
+will not exit until all threads created by \class{ThreadingMixIn} have
+exited.
 
 Server classes have the same external methods and attributes, no
 matter what network protocol they use: