#1579477: mention necessity to flush output before exec'ing

Doc/library/os.rst

@@ -1453,6 +1453,12 @@ to be ignored.
    and will have the same process id as the caller.  Errors will be reported as
    :exc:`OSError` exceptions.  
 
+   The current process is replaced immediately. Open file objects and
+   descriptors are not flushed, so if there may be data buffered
+   on these open files, you should flush them using
+   :func:`sys.stdout.flush` or :func:`os.fsync` before calling an
+   :func:`exec\*` function.
+
    The "l" and "v" variants of the :func:`exec\*` functions differ in how
    command-line arguments are passed.  The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest
    to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the
@@ -1477,8 +1483,9 @@ to be ignored.
    used to define the environment variables for the new process (these are used
    instead of the current process' environment); the functions :func:`execl`,
    :func:`execlp`, :func:`execv`, and :func:`execvp` all cause the new process to
-   inherit the environment of the current process. Availability: Unix,
-   Windows.
+   inherit the environment of the current process. 
+
+   Availability: Unix, Windows.
 
 
 .. function:: _exit(n)