From 580d60cef47124376cb1d287f830551a0fa10869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:13:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More notes about r78946, this time describing the restore_signals behavior. --- Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index f937d55a0ce..8651d1fb63d 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.