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r73825 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:49:29 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 9 lines
Use select.poll() in subprocess, when available, rather than select() so that
it does not fail when file descriptors are large. Fixes issue3392.
Patch largely contributed by Frank Chu (fpmc) with some improvements by me.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue3392.
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r73826 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:55:11 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines
news entry for r73825
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Candidate for backporting to release31-maint as it is a bug fix and changes no
public API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
+ when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
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- Issue #6369: Fix an RLE decompression bug in the binhex module.
- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.