[Python-checkins] r78947 - python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS
gregory.p.smith
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Mar 14 07:52:19 CET 2010
Author: gregory.p.smith
Date: Sun Mar 14 07:52:18 2010
New Revision: 78947
Log:
NEWS entry for subprocess module C extension in r78946.
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Misc/NEWS Sun Mar 14 07:52:18 2010
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@
Library
-------
+- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
+ by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
+ done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
+
- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
cElementTree module is updated too.
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