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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index e77a8fe..0bbfce9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Notes on the availability of these functions: objects, and result in an object of the same type, if a path or file name is returned. +* On VxWorks, os.fork, os.execv and os.spawn*p* are not supported. .. note:: @@ -3578,6 +3579,9 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. process. On Windows, the process id will actually be the process handle, so can be used with the :func:`waitpid` function. + Note on VxWorks, this function doesn't return ``-signal`` when the new process is + killed. Instead it raises OSError exception. + The "l" and "v" variants of the :func:`spawn\* <spawnl>` functions differ in how command-line arguments are passed. The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the |