From 31be544721670516fa9700e088c022ff38b0c5fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:44:16 -0700
Subject: bpo-24888: Clarify subprocess.check_call propagates exceptions if
 unable to start process (GH-28018)

(cherry picked from commit 19a304ba990481f0381a5316096b6b3cf2dff381)

Co-authored-by: DonnaDia <37962843+DonnaDia@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index af54633..21a96a4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -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::
 
-- 
cgit v0.12