bpo-39797 Changes to socketserver.BaseServer's shutdown() method. (GH-18929)

Automerge-Triggered-By: @ned-deily
2020-03-20 11:03:18 +03:00 · 2020-03-20 11:03:18 +03:00 · 2de7ac9798
parent 7bf069b611
commit 2de7ac9798
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--- a/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socketserver.rst
@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ Server Objects
   .. method:: shutdown()

      Tell the :meth:`serve_forever` loop to stop and wait until it does.
+      :meth:`shutdown` must be called while :meth:`serve_forever` is running in a
+      different thread otherwise it will deadlock.


   .. method:: server_close()