From 45c23e61d88c20aa6a63060654fce182927ef915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:17:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain the exit code for the wait() method, including a reference to the os.W*() functions used to interpret the return value. This fixes SF bug #429361. --- Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex b/Doc/lib/libpopen2.tex index 699308c2a0fa..add0af130cf8 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}