From 4d80889d135008174f2be9a223e66d03e6c10b18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Curtin Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:00:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 83745 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83745 | brian.curtin | 2010-08-05 13:56:00 -0500 (Thu, 05 Aug 2010) | 4 lines Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only with os.kill. ........ --- Doc/library/signal.rst | 8 ++++++-- Misc/NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/signal.rst b/Doc/library/signal.rst index 8ac7bee0f0c0..0f84537988f7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/signal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/signal.rst @@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ The variables defined in the :mod:`signal` module are: .. data:: CTRL_C_EVENT - The signal corresponding to the CTRL+C keystroke event. + The signal corresponding to the CTRL+C keystroke event. This signal can + only be used with :func:`os.kill`. + Availability: Windows. .. versionadded:: 2.7 @@ -85,7 +87,9 @@ The variables defined in the :mod:`signal` module are: .. data:: CTRL_BREAK_EVENT - The signal corresponding to the CTRL+BREAK keystroke event. + The signal corresponding to the CTRL+BREAK keystroke event. This signal can + only be used with :func:`os.kill`. + Availability: Windows. .. versionadded:: 2.7 diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 3876b4aa588d..c844ebff77c5 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ Tests Documentation ------------- +- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only + with os.kill. + - Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use only. -- 2.47.3