Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index c7fd2ff..e5ee871 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@
Joe Norton
Neal Norwitz
Michal Nowikowski
+Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
Nigel O'Brian
Kevin O'Connor
Tim O'Malley
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c4627fa..d5c4699 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
+ ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
+ that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
+
- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.