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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-06-18 19:11:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-06-18 19:11:25 (GMT) |
| commit | a88ef00a50bea5b6f7df28a51a84d0938bf6fe95 (patch) | |
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| parent | 4f298695bebfde439c074731d21dc5dd8d4bb08c (diff) | |
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Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index d150776..6181be2 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -695,7 +695,9 @@ same limitations. Changes to \code{posix.environ}, \code{sys.stdin}, etc.\ are not reflected in the environment of the executed command. The return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the format specified for \function{wait()}, except on Windows 95 and 98, -where it is always \code{0}. +where it is always \code{0}. Note that \POSIX{} does not specify the +meaning of the return value of the C \cfunction{system()} function, +so the return value of the Python function is system-dependent. Availability: \UNIX{}, Windows. \end{funcdesc} |