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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2016-07-04 09:40:27 -0400
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2016-07-04 09:40:27 -0400
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Tweak the docs about using other options with multiprocessing
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@@ -109,8 +109,9 @@ or ``gevent``. Values other than ``thread`` require the :ref:`C extension
<install_extension>`.
If you are using ``--concurrency=multiprocessing``, you must set other options
-in the configuration file. Other options on the command line will not be
-passed to the other processes.
+in the configuration file. Options on the command line will not be passed to
+the processes that multiprocessing creates. Best practice is to use the
+configuration file for all options.
.. _multiprocessing: https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html
.. _greenlet: http://greenlet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/