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  r76245 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-13 23:31:18 +0100 (ven., 13 nov. 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
  a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
  default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
  local connections.
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+- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
+  a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
+  default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
+  local connections.
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 - Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
   unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
   test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.