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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-05-04 18:02:30 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-05-04 18:02:30 (GMT)
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Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they try to take the GIL.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.2.1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
+ interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
+ they try to take the GIL.
+
- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the