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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2010-03-01 06:18:41 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2010-03-01 06:18:41 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 78527,78550 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78527 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 17:22:39 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 4 lines Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork. ........ r78550 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 22:01:02 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines Fix test to be skipped on windows. ........
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@@ -751,6 +751,10 @@ Extension Modules
- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
(CVE_2009_3560).
+- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
+ thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
+ lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
+
- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
parameter on some platforms such as OS X.