From: Gregory P. Smith ext:(%20%5BGoogle%20Inc.%5D) <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 05:48:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: issue25931: document that socketserver.Forking* are unavailable on platforms
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issue25931: document that socketserver.Forking* are unavailable on platforms
that support os.fork.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
index af2e25385c..a7c3e3e969 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ 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
@@ -612,3 +615,4 @@ 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`.