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  r72852 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-05-23 17:37:45 +0200 (sam., 23 mai 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
  the dedicated C type `pid_t` instead of a C `int`. Some platforms have
  a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
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+- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
+  the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
+  a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
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 - Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
   Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.