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| author | Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> | 2003-03-13 13:56:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> | 2003-03-13 13:56:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 43ed43bfc1380d36dd87f405080b5b3fae55532a (patch) | |
| tree | a021c5fc5004bf2a4894e9b84f841d764222b424 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 94afd3095ee37dfcc672ebcd6ade8a3b00a39a69 (diff) | |
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Take out my (long since disabled) POSIX signal mask handling code.
I'm not going to have the time or energy to get this working x-platform
-- anyone who does is welcome to the code!
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index 362db5f..de46869 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -1485,10 +1485,8 @@ it immediately.) location. \item Support for more advanced POSIX signal handling was added -to the \module{signal} module by adding the \function{sigpending}, -\function{sigprocmask} and \function{sigsuspend} functions where supported -by the platform. These functions make it possible to avoid some previously -unavoidable race conditions with signal handling. +to the \module{signal} but then removed again as it proved impossible +to make it work reliably across platforms. \item The \module{socket} module now supports timeouts. You can call the \method{settimeout(\var{t})} method on a socket object to |