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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2006-04-02 21:18:27 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2006-04-02 21:18:27 (GMT)
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Document recent fdopen() change.
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libos.tex6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index a9100a1..ebe3021 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows.
\versionchanged[When specified, the \var{mode} argument must now start
with one of the letters \character{r}, \character{w}, or \character{a},
otherwise a \exception{ValueError} is raised]{2.3}
+\versionchanged[On \UNIX, when the \var{mode} argument starts with
+ \character{a}, the \var{O_APPEND} flag is set on the file descriptor
+ (which the \cfunction{fdopen()} implementation already does on most
+ platforms)]{2.5}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{popen}{command\optional{, mode\optional{, bufsize}}}
@@ -1732,7 +1736,7 @@ The \function{spawn()} functions called with \constant{P_NOWAIT}
return suitable process handles.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{wait3}{\{optional{options}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{wait3}{\optional{options}}
Similar to \function{waitpid()}, except no process id argument is given and
a 3-element tuple containing the child's process id, exit status indication,
and resource usage information is returned. Refer to