bpo-24888: Clarify subprocess.check_call propagates exceptions if unable to start...

(cherry picked from commit 19a304ba990481f0381a5316096b6b3cf2dff381)

Co-authored-by: DonnaDia <37962843+DonnaDia@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 57a3285f8f4d87e53b5d3b0a321e01683f9ec9fc..55dcc172bbc2830fccb5d2527ddca738f7de1a1e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -1125,6 +1125,8 @@ 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::