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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-07-18 23:29:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-07-18 23:29:18 (GMT) |
| commit | 6d175b72b5a50936e005e19aca38957a0756e3ec (patch) | |
| tree | 0f675d7fb69ea8299da2ceed0d4c08fd914d18c9 /Doc/library/os.rst | |
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Issue #6476: Document that os.spawnle and os.spawnve are not thread-safe under Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 6bd08c1..42dba30 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -2438,7 +2438,9 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, 'cp', L, os.environ) Availability: Unix, Windows. :func:`spawnlp`, :func:`spawnlpe`, :func:`spawnvp` - and :func:`spawnvpe` are not available on Windows. + and :func:`spawnvpe` are not available on Windows. :func:`spawnle` and + :func:`spawnve` are not thread-safe on Windows; we advise you to use the + :mod:`subprocess` module instead. .. data:: P_NOWAIT |