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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2015-04-13 17:48:19 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2015-04-13 17:48:19 (GMT)
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Issue #23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted
while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal error is emitted instead.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted
+ while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread
+ tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal
+ error is emitted instead.
+
- Issue #22977: Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine.
Patch by Martin Panter.