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Remove unnecessary mention of os.fsync() from os.exec*() docs
zhangboyang May 3, 2025
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Use `:meth:` for `sys.stdout.flush`
zhangboyang May 12, 2025
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9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions Doc/library/os.rst
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Expand Up @@ -4318,11 +4318,10 @@ 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\* <execl>` function.
The current process is replaced immediately. Open file objects are not
flushed, so if there may be data buffered on these open files, you should
flush them using :meth:`~io.IOBase.flush`, e.g. :meth:`sys.stdout.flush`,
before calling an :func:`exec\* <execl>` function.

The "l" and "v" variants of the :func:`exec\* <execl>` functions differ in how
command-line arguments are passed. The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest
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