From 7e3535cbbd1d5e4b0d182557d91ac2c60bc1ef81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:37:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added documentation to the docstrings for the W*() functions
 that take a process exit status as a parameter.

---
 Modules/posixmodule.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 3226043ddb5..821a3cd96d6 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -2851,7 +2851,7 @@ posix_strerror(self, args)
 #ifdef WIFSTOPPED
 static char posix_WIFSTOPPED__doc__[] =
 "WIFSTOPPED(status) -> Boolean\n\
-See Unix documentation.";
+Return true if the process returning 'status' was stopped.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_WIFSTOPPED(self, args)
@@ -2879,7 +2879,7 @@ posix_WIFSTOPPED(self, args)
 #ifdef WIFSIGNALED
 static char posix_WIFSIGNALED__doc__[] =
 "WIFSIGNALED(status) -> Boolean\n\
-See Unix documentation.";
+Retrun true if the process returning 'status' was terminated by a signal.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_WIFSIGNALED(self, args)
@@ -2907,7 +2907,8 @@ posix_WIFSIGNALED(self, args)
 #ifdef WIFEXITED
 static char posix_WIFEXITED__doc__[] =
 "WIFEXITED(status) -> Boolean\n\
-See Unix documentation.";
+Return true if the process returning 'status' exited using the exit()\n\
+system call.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_WIFEXITED(self, args)
@@ -2935,7 +2936,7 @@ posix_WIFEXITED(self, args)
 #ifdef WEXITSTATUS
 static char posix_WEXITSTATUS__doc__[] =
 "WEXITSTATUS(status) -> integer\n\
-See Unix documentation.";
+Return the process return code from 'status'.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_WEXITSTATUS(self, args)
@@ -2963,7 +2964,8 @@ posix_WEXITSTATUS(self, args)
 #ifdef WTERMSIG
 static char posix_WTERMSIG__doc__[] =
 "WTERMSIG(status) -> integer\n\
-See Unix documentation.";
+Return the signal that terminated the process that provided the 'status'\n\
+value.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_WTERMSIG(self, args)
@@ -2991,7 +2993,7 @@ posix_WTERMSIG(self, args)
 #ifdef WSTOPSIG
 static char posix_WSTOPSIG__doc__[] =
 "WSTOPSIG(status) -> integer\n\
-See Unix documentation.";
+Return the signal that stopped the process that provided the 'status' value.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_WSTOPSIG(self, args)