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  r76137 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-06 23:34:35 +0100 (ven., 06 nov. 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
  primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
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  r76172 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-09 17:00:11 +0100 (lun., 09 nov. 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
  than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
  `thread.start_new_thread()`.
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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
+  than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
+  `thread.start_new_thread()`.
+
 - Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
   which are part of a reference cycle.
 
@@ -71,6 +75,9 @@
 Tests
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+- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
+  primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
+
 - Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
   __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.