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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2008-03-15 02:32:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2008-03-15 02:32:49 +0000 |
| commit | 75e51680f1902d714a4f33efa3d857df9e7e59eb (patch) | |
| tree | d40d420a36bf251f86fcbda7045670e68cdb0877 | |
| parent | 026778174298e652bd91ebe5a11db1bd3a3e0902 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-75e51680f1902d714a4f33efa3d857df9e7e59eb.tar.gz | |
note that fork and forkpty raise OSError on failure
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/os.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index f76cd977cc..98d0cf936d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1631,7 +1631,8 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. .. function:: fork() Fork a child process. Return ``0`` in the child and the child's process id in the - parent. Availability: Macintosh, Unix. + parent. If an error occurs :exc:`OSError` is raised. + Availability: Macintosh, Unix. .. function:: forkpty() @@ -1640,7 +1641,8 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. terminal. Return a pair of ``(pid, fd)``, where *pid* is ``0`` in the child, the new child's process id in the parent, and *fd* is the file descriptor of the master end of the pseudo-terminal. For a more portable approach, use the - :mod:`pty` module. Availability: Macintosh, some flavors of Unix. + :mod:`pty` module. If an error occurs :exc:`OSError` is raised. + Availability: Macintosh, some flavors of Unix. .. function:: kill(pid, sig) |