From a31f57cc9a6df320fa4427f6cd3bb8066be5f451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:52:18 +0000
Subject: NEWS entry for subprocess module C extension in r78946.

---
 Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e810632..f937d55 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- 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.
 
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