Issue #6064: Add a `daemon` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
thread/process.
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
index b56a061..3fb9ff6 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/process.py
@@ -91,12 +91,16 @@
'''
_Popen = None
- def __init__(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}):
+ def __init__(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={},
+ *, daemon=None):
assert group is None, 'group argument must be None for now'
count = next(_current_process._counter)
self._identity = _current_process._identity + (count,)
self._authkey = _current_process._authkey
- self._daemonic = _current_process._daemonic
+ if daemon is not None:
+ self._daemonic = daemon
+ else:
+ self._daemonic = _current_process._daemonic
self._tempdir = _current_process._tempdir
self._parent_pid = os.getpid()
self._popen = None