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authorChristian Heimes <christian@python.org>2019-08-27 21:36:56 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-08-27 21:36:56 (GMT)
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bpo-37951: Lift subprocess's fork() restriction (GH-15544)
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@@ -1531,6 +1531,12 @@ Changes in the Python API
non-zero :attr:`~Popen.returncode`.
(Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye and Victor Stinner in :issue:`35537`.)
+* The *preexec_fn* argument of * :class:`subprocess.Popen` is no longer
+ compatible with subinterpreters. The use of the parameter in a
+ subinterpreter now raises :exc:`RuntimeError`.
+ (Contributed by Eric Snow in :issue:`34651`, modified by Christian Heimes
+ in :issue:`37951`.)
+
* The :meth:`imap.IMAP4.logout` method no longer ignores silently arbitrary
exceptions.