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Add Misc/NEWS "What's New" entry for subprocess timeouts.
authorReid Kleckner <reid@kleckner.net>
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:23:08 +0000 (22:23 -0400)
committerReid Kleckner <reid@kleckner.net>
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:23:08 +0000 (22:23 -0400)
Misc/NEWS

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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
+  subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
+  subprocess.check_output.  If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
+  seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
+
 - Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
   (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
   written by Charles-Francois Natali.