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authorAntoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>2017-05-28 09:35:14 (GMT)
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Doc nits for bpo-16500 (#1841)
* Doc nits for bpo-16500 * Fix more references
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@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28682`.)
Added support for :ref:`file descriptors <path_fd>` in :func:`~os.scandir`
on Unix. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25996`.)
+New function :func:`os.register_at_fork` allows registering Python callbacks
+to be executed on a process fork. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
+:issue:`16500`.)
+
unittest.mock
-------------
@@ -243,6 +247,11 @@ Build and C API Changes
* Added functions :c:func:`PySlice_Unpack` and :c:func:`PySlice_AdjustIndices`.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27867`.)
+* :c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork` is deprecated in favour of the new functions
+ :c:func:`PyOS_BeforeFork`, :c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork_Parent` and
+ :c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork_Child`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
+ :issue:`16500`.)
+
Deprecated
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