Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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+- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
+ ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
+ that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
+
- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.