Commit 574b695f authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Explain the exit code for the wait() method, including a reference to

the os.W*() functions used to interpret the return value.

This fixes SF bug #429361.
parent 9df5b898
......@@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ code otherwise.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{wait}{}
Waits for and returns the return code of the child process.
Waits for and returns the status code of the child process. The
status code encodes both the return code of the process and
information about whether it exited using the \cfunction{exit()}
system call or died due to a signal. Functions to help interpret the
status code are defined in the \refmodule{os} module; see section
\ref{os-process} for the \function{W\var{*}()} family of functions.
\end{methoddesc}
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