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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index af54633..21a96a4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
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@@ -1149,6 +1149,8 @@ calls these functions.
code was zero then return, otherwise raise :exc:`CalledProcessError`. The
:exc:`CalledProcessError` object will have the return code in the
:attr:`~CalledProcessError.returncode` attribute.
+ If :func:`check_call` was unable to start the process it will propagate the exception
+ that was raised.
Code needing to capture stdout or stderr should use :func:`run` instead::