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  r70897 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:34:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix Thread.ident when it is the main thread or a dummy thread #5632
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+- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
+  with the threading module.
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 - Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
 
 - Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging