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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-07-18 23:26:58 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-07-18 23:26:58 (GMT)
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Issue #6476: Document that os.spawnle and os.spawnve are not thread-safe under Windows.
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@@ -1930,7 +1930,9 @@ 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