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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-02-01 11:27:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-02-01 11:27:43 (GMT) |
| commit | ab034fab03bf1a0ee1d03651799f1c42f4f48050 (patch) | |
| tree | f3669466f351c8155095e2c849ebc8352d07e6eb /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 0c350bfad0ec9350aec57e37962b1aadb8492173 (diff) | |
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Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
where their capabilities intersect. Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
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@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ Tests Windows +- os.waitpid() is now implemented for Windows, and can be used to block + until a specified process exits. This is similar to, but not exactly + the same as, os.waitpid() on POSIX systems. If you're waiting for + a specific process whose pid was obtained from one of the spawn() + functions, the same Python os.waitpid() code works across platforms. + See the docs for details. + - New tempfile.TemporaryFile implementation for Windows: this doesn't need a TemproraryFileWrapper wrapper anymore, and should be immune to a nasty problem: before 2.3, if you got a temp file on Windows, it |