From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:13:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More notes about r78946, this time describing the restore_signals behavior.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~1471
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=580d60cef47124376cb1d287f830551a0fa10869;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

More notes about r78946, this time describing the restore_signals behavior.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f937d55a0cee..8651d1fb63d1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -287,6 +287,11 @@ Library
   by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
   done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
 
+- subprocess.Popen now has restore_signals and start_new_session features.
+  The default of restore_signals=True is a new behavior compared to earlier
+  Python versions.  This means that signals such as SIGPIPE are not ignored
+  by default in subprocesses launched by Python (Issue #1652).
+
 - Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3.  The
   cElementTree module is updated too.