Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return

value, based on comments from Tim Peters.

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index d15077631c9e7bfa5d3d128f9c2172e777f5ce5f..6181be27e8cfde9d6c8ea75594b27e6fd62eec5b 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -695,7 +695,9 @@ same limitations.  Changes to \code{posix.environ}, \code{sys.stdin},
 etc.\ are not reflected in the environment of the executed command.
 The return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the
 format specified for \function{wait()}, except on Windows 95 and 98,
-where it is always \code{0}.
+where it is always \code{0}.  Note that \POSIX{} does not specify the
+meaning of the return value of the C \cfunction{system()} function,
+so the return value of the Python function is system-dependent.
 Availability: \UNIX{}, Windows.
 \end{funcdesc}