From: Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 05:03:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #457466: "popenx() argument mangling hangs python" [Win9x only]
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#457466: "popenx() argument mangling hangs python" [Win9x only]
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 76c30147fd0a..17fb525d1ba1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Core
   access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable
   could access a pointer to freed memory.
 
+- SF #457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python (win9x only).
+  Under certain circumstances, using any of the popen calls on win9x
+  would cause python to hang.
+
 Library
 
 - The xml.sax.expatreader.ExpatParser class will no longer create