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| author | Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> | 2014-03-16 04:13:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> | 2014-03-16 04:13:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 3732ed24145c1ac77e99bcf85bccda3af095e696 (patch) | |
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| parent | b6b6a6d587d267cbad490232d08faebd30fdb7e2 (diff) | |
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Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 1fc8de9..f50e5d9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ process and user. Availability: Unix. - .. note:: On Mac OS X, :func:`getgroups` behavior differs somewhat from + .. note:: + + On Mac OS X, :func:`getgroups` behavior differs somewhat from other Unix platforms. If the Python interpreter was built with a deployment target of :const:`10.5` or earlier, :func:`getgroups` returns the list of effective group ids associated with the current user process; @@ -940,8 +942,9 @@ or `the MSDN <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z0kc8e3z.aspx>`_ on Window the C library. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 - Add :data:`O_TMPFILE` constant. It's only available on Linux Kernel 3.11 - or newer. + Add :data:`O_PATH` on systems that support it. + Add :data:`O_TMPFILE`, only available on Linux Kernel 3.11 + or newer. .. function:: openpty() @@ -2653,7 +2656,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. Fork a child process. Return ``0`` in the child and the child's process id in the parent. If an error occurs :exc:`OSError` is raised. - Note that some platforms including FreeBSD <= 6.3, Cygwin and OS/2 EMX have + Note that some platforms including FreeBSD <= 6.3 and Cygwin have known issues when using fork() from a thread. .. warning:: @@ -2899,7 +2902,6 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. :manpage:`times(2)` or the corresponding Windows Platform API documentation. On Windows, only :attr:`user` and :attr:`system` are known; the other attributes are zero. - On OS/2, only :attr:`elapsed` is known; the other attributes are zero. Availability: Unix, Windows. |