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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/_thread.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/threading.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/_thread.rst b/Doc/library/_thread.rst index c087c75..369e9cd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/_thread.rst +++ b/Doc/library/_thread.rst @@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ Lock objects have the following methods: .. versionchanged:: 3.2 The *timeout* parameter is new. + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 + Lock acquires can now be interrupted by signals on POSIX. + + .. method:: lock.release() Releases the lock. The lock must have been acquired earlier, but not diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index 282d705..371ac90 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -408,6 +408,9 @@ All methods are executed atomically. .. versionchanged:: 3.2 The *timeout* parameter is new. + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 + Lock acquires can now be interrupted by signals on POSIX. + .. method:: Lock.release() 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 ============= |