Issue #5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API to exit with status 120 on failure

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/sys.rst b/Doc/c-api/sys.rst
index 3d83b27..9ba6496 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/sys.rst
@@ -212,20 +212,24 @@ Process Control
 .. c:function:: void Py_Exit(int status)
 
    .. index::
-      single: Py_Finalize()
+      single: Py_FinalizeEx()
       single: exit()
 
-   Exit the current process.  This calls :c:func:`Py_Finalize` and then calls the
-   standard C library function ``exit(status)``.
+   Exit the current process.  This calls :c:func:`Py_FinalizeEx` and then calls the
+   standard C library function ``exit(status)``.  If :c:func:`Py_FinalizeEx`
+   indicates an error, the exit status is set to 120.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+      Errors from finalization no longer ignored.
 
 
 .. c:function:: int Py_AtExit(void (*func) ())
 
    .. index::
-      single: Py_Finalize()
+      single: Py_FinalizeEx()
       single: cleanup functions
 
-   Register a cleanup function to be called by :c:func:`Py_Finalize`.  The cleanup
+   Register a cleanup function to be called by :c:func:`Py_FinalizeEx`.  The cleanup
    function will be called with no arguments and should return no value.  At most
    32 cleanup functions can be registered.  When the registration is successful,
    :c:func:`Py_AtExit` returns ``0``; on failure, it returns ``-1``.  The cleanup