From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:28:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that for shell=True, the shell PID will be the child PID.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7b1~292
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b56ce0bc49a8ac5536d5e06cf30f20b39631c13;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Clarify that for shell=True, the shell PID will be the child PID.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 9f4b90448d6c..b557bcd4c936 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -376,6 +376,9 @@ The following attributes are also available:
 
    The process ID of the child process.
 
+   Note that if you set the *shell* argument to ``True``, this is the process ID
+   of the spawned shell.
+
 
 .. attribute:: Popen.returncode