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r70908 | jesse.noller | 2009-03-31 17:20:35 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Issue 5619: Pass MS CRT debug flags into subprocesses
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r70939 | jesse.noller | 2009-03-31 22:45:50 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Fix multiprocessing.event to match the new threading.Event API
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r71009 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 19:03:28 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
issue5545: Switch to Autoconf for multiprocessing; special thanks to Martin Lowis for help
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r71022 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 21:32:55 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Issue 3110: Additional protection for SEM_VALUE_MAX on platforms, thanks to Martin Loewis
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r71036 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 23:22:09 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Issue 3551: Raise ValueError if the size causes ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 7e828b6..3dfa2cc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -708,7 +708,8 @@
Send an object to the other end of the connection which should be read
using :meth:`recv`.
- The object must be picklable.
+ The object must be picklable. Very large pickles (approximately 32 MB+,
+ though it depends on the OS) may raise a ValueError exception.
.. method:: recv()
@@ -740,7 +741,9 @@
complete message.
If *offset* is given then data is read from that position in *buffer*. If
- *size* is given then that many bytes will be read from buffer.
+ *size* is given then that many bytes will be read from buffer. Very large
+ buffers (approximately 32 MB+, though it depends on the OS) may raise a
+ ValueError exception
.. method:: recv_bytes([maxlength])
@@ -834,6 +837,12 @@
.. class:: Event()
A clone of :class:`threading.Event`.
+ This method returns the state of the internal semaphore on exit, so it
+ will always return ``True`` except if a timeout is given and the operation
+ times out.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+ Previously, the method always returned ``None``.
.. class:: Lock()