From: Gregory P. Smith ext:(%20%5BGoogle%20Inc.%5D) <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 05:44:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: issue25931: document that socketserver.Forking* are unavailable on platforms
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a2~166
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issue25931: document that socketserver.Forking* are unavailable on platforms
lacking os.fork().
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
index 1b8d7ff8ef3f..dac928124fa1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ server classes.
    :class:`UDPServer`.  Setting the various attributes also changes the
    behavior of the underlying server mechanism.
 
+   :class:`ForkingMixIn` and the Forking classes mentioned below are
+   only available on POSIX platforms that support :func:`~os.fork`.
 
 .. class:: ForkingTCPServer
            ForkingUDPServer
@@ -619,3 +621,5 @@ The output of the example should look something like this::
 
 The :class:`ForkingMixIn` class is used in the same way, except that the server
 will spawn a new process for each request.
+Available only on POSIX platforms that support :func:`~os.fork`.
+