cpython/Misc
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[3.13] gh-87744: fix waitpid race while calling send_signal in asyncio (GH-121126) (#121194)
gh-87744: fix waitpid race while calling send_signal in asyncio (GH-121126)

asyncio earlier relied on subprocess module to send signals to the process, this has some drawbacks one being that subprocess module unnecessarily calls waitpid on child processes and hence it races with asyncio implementation which internally uses child watchers. To mitigate this, now asyncio sends signals directly to the process without going through the subprocess on non windows systems. On Windows it fallbacks to subprocess module handling but on windows there are no child watchers so this issue doesn't exists altogether.

(cherry picked from commit bd473aa598)

Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <kumaraditya@python.org>
2024-07-01 05:11:47 +00:00
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NEWS.d [3.13] gh-87744: fix waitpid race while calling send_signal in asyncio (GH-121126) (#121194) 2024-07-01 05:11:47 +00:00
rhel7
ACKS [3.13] gh-120868: Fix breaking change in logging.config when using QueueHandler (GH-120872) (GH-121078) 2024-06-27 10:09:17 +01:00
coverity_model.c
externals.spdx.json gh-116145: Updated bundled Tcl/Tk on Windows to 8.6.14 (GH-117030) 2024-05-31 12:38:03 +00:00
HISTORY [3.13] Fix typos in HISTORY documentation (GH-119453) (#119597) 2024-05-27 08:13:49 +00:00
indent.pro
platform_triplet.c gh-114099: Modify preprocessor symbol usage to support older macOS SDKs (GH-118073) 2024-04-19 14:56:33 -04:00
Porting
python-config.in bpo-45101: Add consistency in usage message IO between 2 versions of python-config (GH-28162) 2024-02-26 22:04:44 +02:00
python-config.sh.in [3.13] gh-120291: Fix a bashism in python-config.sh.in (GH-120292) (#120341) 2024-06-11 07:29:01 +00:00
python-embed.pc.in
python.man [3.13] gh-121101: Document -Wall option (an alias for -Walways) (GH-121102) (#121146) 2024-06-29 13:57:11 +05:30
python.pc.in gh-116745: Remove all internal usage of @LIBPYTHON@ (#116746) 2024-03-22 00:54:50 +01:00
README
README.AIX
README.coverity
README.valgrind
sbom.spdx.json gh-116741: Upgrade libexpat to 2.6.2 (#117296) 2024-04-22 18:15:08 -07:00
SpecialBuilds.txt gh-108634: Py_TRACE_REFS uses a hash table (#108663) 2023-08-31 18:33:34 +02:00
stable_abi.toml [3.13] gh-119521: Rename IncompleteInputError to _IncompleteInputError and remove from public API/ABI (GH-119680, GH-120955) (GH-120944) 2024-06-24 20:23:30 +02:00
svnmap.txt
valgrind-python.supp [3.13] gh-121096: Ignore dlopen() leaks in Valgrind suppression file (GH-121097) (#121122) 2024-06-28 11:26:37 +00:00
vgrindefs

Python Misc subdirectory
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This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS                    Acknowledgements
HISTORY                 News from previous releases -- oldest last
indent.pro              GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS                    News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting                 Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
python-config.in        Python script template for python-config
python.man              UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python.pc.in            Package configuration info template for pkg-config
README                  The file you're reading now
README.AIX              Information about using Python on AIX
README.coverity         Information about running Coverity's Prevent on Python
README.valgrind         Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
SpecialBuilds.txt       Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
svnmap.txt              Map of old SVN revs and branches to hg changeset ids,
                        help history-digging
valgrind-python.supp    Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind
vgrindefs               Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)