os_fork: more doc tweaks

pull/564/head
David Wilson 6 years ago
parent add357a029
commit 7763549653

@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ class Corker(object):
unrecoverably snapshotted in the locked state in the fork child, causing
deadlocks at random future moments.
To ensure a target thread has all locks dropped, we ask it to write a large
string to a socket with a small buffer that has :data:`os.O_NONBLOCK`
To ensure a target thread has all locks dropped, it is made to write a
large string to a socket with a small buffer that has :data:`os.O_NONBLOCK`
disabled. CPython will drop the GIL and enter the ``write()`` system call,
where it will block until the socket buffer is drained, or the write side
is closed.

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