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  r73190 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-04 01:23:45 +0200 (Do, 04 Jun 2009) | 2 lines

  Avoid PendingDeprecationWarnings emitted by deprecated unittest methods.
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  r73213 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-04 12:15:57 +0200 (Do, 04 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #5967: note that the C slicing APIs do not support negative indices.
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  r73257 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-06 19:50:05 +0200 (Sa, 06 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6211: elaborate a bit on ways to call the function.
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  r73258 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-06 19:51:31 +0200 (Sa, 06 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6204: use a real reference instead of "see later".
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  r73260 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-06 20:21:58 +0200 (Sa, 06 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6224: s/JPython/Jython/, and remove one link to a module nine years old.
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  r73275 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-07 22:37:52 +0200 (So, 07 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Add Ezio.
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  r73294 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-08 15:34:52 +0200 (Mo, 08 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6194: O_SHLOCK/O_EXLOCK are not really more platform independent than lockf().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/fcntl.rst b/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
index 97fbb50..aaff852 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@
 
    Module :mod:`os`
       If the locking flags :const:`O_SHLOCK` and :const:`O_EXLOCK` are present
-      in the :mod:`os` module, the :func:`os.open` function provides a more
-      platform-independent alternative to the :func:`lockf` and :func:`flock`
-      functions.
+      in the :mod:`os` module (on BSD only), the :func:`os.open` function
+      provides an alternative to the :func:`lockf` and :func:`flock` functions.