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  r78527 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 17:22:39 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
  thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
  lock.  The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
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  r78531 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 18:31:33 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix for r78527.  It left out updating forkpty.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b05b854..f71e9be 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@
 - Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
   (CVE_2009_3560).
 
+- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
+  thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
+  lock.  The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
+
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