From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:52:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NEWS entry for subprocess module C extension in r78946.
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NEWS entry for subprocess module C extension in r78946.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e810632cba85..f937d55a0cee 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ C-API
 Library
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+- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
+  by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
+  done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
+
 - Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3.  The
   cElementTree module is updated too.