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  r83951 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-08-11 14:20:42 -0500 (Wed, 11 Aug 2010) | 4 lines

  use pep 383 decoding for mknod and mkfifo #9570

  Patch by David Watson.
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 Extension Modules
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+- Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
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 - Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
   to prevent crashes.