backport r60104 + r60111 from trunk.
- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08181e6..294ab87 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
+ collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
+ to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
+
- Bug #1687: Fixed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing.
- Issue #1182: many arithmetic bugs in the decimal module have been