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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex b/Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex index 699308c..add0af1 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex @@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ code otherwise. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{wait}{} -Waits for and returns the return code of the child process. +Waits for and returns the status code of the child process. The +status code encodes both the return code of the process and +information about whether it exited using the \cfunction{exit()} +system call or died due to a signal. Functions to help interpret the +status code are defined in the \refmodule{os} module; see section +\ref{os-process} for the \function{W\var{*}()} family of functions. \end{methoddesc} |