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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-02-25 14:24:15 +0100
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-02-25 14:24:15 +0100
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asyncio: add a note about (non) thread safety in each class
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@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ Process
:meth:`~subprocess.Popen.wait` method of the :class:`~subprocess.Popen`
class is implemented as a busy loop.
+ This class is :ref:`not thread safe <asyncio-multithreading>`. See also the
+ :ref:`Subprocess and threads <asyncio-subprocess-threads>` section.
+
.. coroutinemethod:: wait()
Wait for child process to terminate. Set and return :attr:`returncode`
@@ -310,6 +313,8 @@ are limits:
subprocesses from other threads. Call the :func:`get_child_watcher`
function in the main thread to instantiate the child watcher.
+The :class:`asyncio.subprocess.Process` class is not thread safe.
+
.. seealso::
The :ref:`Concurrency and multithreading in asyncio