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| author | Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> | 2002-08-10 06:26:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> | 2002-08-10 06:26:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 8f3afc7cd30eacd95342f8da5c7ed038e64d41ea (patch) | |
| tree | 9ca5b3a55135d98e942a155c78927f77c8d5b9a2 /Misc | |
| parent | 40af889081938c1fea83cba0a9cbdb35e299119d (diff) | |
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Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 7 |
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@@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ Core and builtins other platforms. KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught, and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x). Ctrl+C will - interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes - created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally - happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] + interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes + created via the popen family (on win2k; we can't make win9x work + reliably) are also interrupted (as generally happens on for Linux/Unix.) + [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return a string. Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time, |