From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:11:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
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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 d15077631c9e..6181be27e8cf 100644
--- 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}