From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:29:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows.
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Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows.
This closes SF bug #537582.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 9493c202cc5a..13db32bb41c8 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -1018,7 +1018,8 @@ Execute the program \var{path} in a new process.  If \var{mode} is
 \constant{P_NOWAIT}, this function returns the process ID of the new
 process; if \var{mode} is \constant{P_WAIT}, returns the process's
 exit code if it exits normally, or \code{-\var{signal}}, where
-\var{signal} is the signal that killed the process.
+\var{signal} is the signal that killed the process.  On Windows, the
+process ID will actually be the process handle.
 
 The \character{l} and \character{v} variants of the
 \function{spawn*()} functions differ in how command-line arguments are