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-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libposix.tex3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
index e3f2929..45f74af 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
@@ -293,7 +293,8 @@ The \var{bufsize} argument has the same meaning as the corresponding
argument to the built-in \function{open()} function. The exit status of
the command (encoded in the format specified for \function{wait()}) is
available as the return value of the \method{close()} method of the file
-object.
+object, except that when the exit status is zero (termination without
+errors), \code{None} is returned.
(Not on MS-DOS.)
\end{funcdesc}