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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-12-15 22:59:16 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-12-15 22:59:16 (GMT)
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Issue #8844: Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted
by signals on platforms using pthreads. Patch by Reid Kleckner.
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@@ -1212,6 +1212,12 @@ Multi-threading
* Similarly, :meth:`threading.Semaphore.acquire` also gained a *timeout*
argument. (Contributed by Torsten Landschoff; :issue:`850728`.)
+* Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted by signals on
+ platforms using pthreads. This means that Python programs that deadlock while
+ acquiring locks can be successfully killed by repeatedly sending SIGINT to the
+ process (ie, by pressing Ctl+C in most shells).
+ (Contributed by Reid Kleckner; :issue:`8844`.)
+
Optimizations
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