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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index ed932ad..e3a92d1 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -1212,6 +1212,12 @@ Multi-threading * Similarly, :meth:`threading.Semaphore.acquire` also gained a *timeout* argument. (Contributed by Torsten Landschoff; :issue:`850728`.) +* Regular and recursive lock acquisitions can now be interrupted by signals on + platforms using pthreads. This means that Python programs that deadlock while + acquiring locks can be successfully killed by repeatedly sending SIGINT to the + process (ie, by pressing Ctl+C in most shells). + (Contributed by Reid Kleckner; :issue:`8844`.) + Optimizations ============= |