From f82ba5bf55d80136db20bf5e65d577f3fec46c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:29:02 +0000 Subject: Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows. This closes SF bug #537582. --- Doc/lib/libos.tex | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 9493c20..13db32b 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -1018,7 +1018,8 @@ Execute the program \var{path} in a new process. If \var{mode} is \constant{P_NOWAIT}, this function returns the process ID of the new process; if \var{mode} is \constant{P_WAIT}, returns the process's exit code if it exits normally, or \code{-\var{signal}}, where -\var{signal} is the signal that killed the process. +\var{signal} is the signal that killed the process. On Windows, the +process ID will actually be the process handle. The \character{l} and \character{v} variants of the \function{spawn*()} functions differ in how command-line arguments are -- cgit v0.12