From 47af4c0bba37a58c1af64ccc95f386098074a354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Darnell Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 21:32:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document Subprocess as posix-only Fixes #1585 --- tornado/process.py | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/tornado/process.py b/tornado/process.py index 64e77c72d..a3545b0f9 100644 --- a/tornado/process.py +++ b/tornado/process.py @@ -201,8 +201,14 @@ class Subprocess(object): attribute of the resulting Subprocess a `.PipeIOStream`. * A new keyword argument ``io_loop`` may be used to pass in an IOLoop. + The ``Subprocess.STREAM`` option and the ``set_exit_callback`` and + ``wait_for_exit`` methods do not work on Windows. There is + therefore no reason to use this class instead of + ``subprocess.Popen`` on that platform. + .. versionchanged:: 4.1 The ``io_loop`` argument is deprecated. + """ STREAM = object() -- 2.47.2