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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2010-03-14 06:52:18 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2010-03-14 06:52:18 (GMT)
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NEWS entry for subprocess module C extension in r78946.
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Library
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+- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
+ by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
+ done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
+
- Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
cElementTree module is updated too.