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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2018-09-08 11:48:18 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-09-08 11:48:18 (GMT)
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bpo-20104: Change the file_actions parameter of os.posix_spawn(). (GH-6725)
* Make its default value an empty tuple instead of None. * Make it a keyword-only parameter.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
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@@ -3394,7 +3394,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
subprocesses.
-.. function:: posix_spawn(path, argv, env, file_actions=None, /, *, \
+.. function:: posix_spawn(path, argv, env, *, file_actions=None, \
setpgroup=None, resetids=False, setsigmask=(), \
setsigdef=(), scheduler=None)
@@ -3402,7 +3402,8 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
Most users should use :func:`subprocess.run` instead of :func:`posix_spawn`.
- The *path*, *args*, and *env* arguments are similar to :func:`execve`.
+ The positional-only arguments *path*, *args*, and *env* are similar to
+ :func:`execve`.
The *file_actions* argument may be a sequence of tuples describing actions
to take on specific file descriptors in the child process between the C