From: Mark Hammond Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 06:26:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x. X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4558 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8f3afc7cd30eacd95342f8da5c7ed038e64d41ea;p=python Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x. --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 11e5f0ae98..e12120dbc6 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ Core and builtins other platforms. KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught, and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x). Ctrl+C will - interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes - created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally - happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] + interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes + created via the popen family (on win2k; we can't make win9x work + reliably) are also interrupted (as generally happens on for Linux/Unix.) + [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232] - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return a string. Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time,