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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-02-25 22:07:43 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-02-25 22:07:43 (GMT)
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Issue #6064: Add a `daemon` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current thread/process.
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Library
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+- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
+ and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
+ default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
+ thread/process.
+
- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
has arrived and the handler returned successfully.