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20 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew M. Kuchling 91ca8de6f4 [Bug #850818] Accept Gregory H. Ball's suggested rewrite of a confusing description 2003-12-23 17:01:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 93cf58b015 Typo fixes 2003-02-06 18:04:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d10f985e Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock" 2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00
Fred Drake f4bf7aa292 Typo: bites --> bytes
(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
2002-06-18 20:38:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ea01d415f Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and
hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637.
2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 098d7fae39 Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512.
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 45c23e61d8 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.
2001-07-06 17:17:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a9db99760 Updated documentation relating to the various flavors of popen[234]()
for Windows & Unix.
2000-09-28 20:27:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 7eba1d8bbe Tell what the result objects are (based on comment from the list). 1999-08-19 17:00:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 5fac2ab220 Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 3aa70d63b9 Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
Fred Drake e331356ff7 Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 93503ca57b Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
Fred Drake a54a887f66 "\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}". 1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
Fred Drake f6863c1909 Added \platform annotations. 1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a5a02f3da Second definition of popen2 should be popen3. 1998-08-13 01:27:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 295da24eaf New section header style.
Fix up a few synopses.
1998-08-10 19:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake a30e469fda Added the popen2 synopsis. 1998-07-27 22:20:02 +00:00
Fred Drake b91e934cf1 Adjusted to use the new module synopsis support macros. 1998-07-23 17:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 6afad3792d popen2 section for the library reference, contributed by Drew Csillag, with
some reorganization.
1998-04-28 14:28:15 +00:00