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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-10-14 15:57:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-10-14 15:57:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 647e9d2652663b9c100be51e22fd6cfc76de95e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 28fb4f50361885ea4eb50066ba842340de37b983 | |
| parent | e1254d748dc008f9d9b9ffb759139c2ee49101f2 (diff) | |
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#7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 260b3b3..432de12 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1836,9 +1836,9 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. .. function:: system(command) Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. This is implemented by calling - the Standard C function :cfunc:`system`, and has the same limitations. Changes - to :data:`os.environ`, :data:`sys.stdin`, etc. are not reflected in the - environment of the executed command. + the Standard C function :cfunc:`system`, and has the same limitations. + Changes :data:`sys.stdin`, etc. are not reflected in the environment of the + executed command. On Unix, the return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the format specified for :func:`wait`. Note that POSIX does not specify the meaning |