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r75958 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-30 18:07:08 +0100 (ven., 30 oct. 2009) | 7 lines
Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
:func:hread._count().
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Tests
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+- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
+ leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
+ reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
+ still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
+ :func:`_thread._count()`.
+
- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.