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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index e5dbfe4280..5988bd35e7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -791,14 +791,14 @@ Instances of the :class:`Popen` class have the following methods: .. method:: Popen.terminate() - Stop the child. On Posix OSs the method sends SIGTERM to the + Stop the child. On POSIX OSs the method sends SIGTERM to the child. On Windows the Win32 API function :c:func:`TerminateProcess` is called to stop the child. .. method:: Popen.kill() - Kills the child. On Posix OSs the function sends SIGKILL to the child. + Kills the child. On POSIX OSs the function sends SIGKILL to the child. On Windows :meth:`kill` is an alias for :meth:`terminate`. |