From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:41:05 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather
X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0a1~1000
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a232613679883b94ecd185c040325755b0de4c0f;p=python

The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather
than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.
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@@@ -124,26 -27,12 +124,29 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
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+ - The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather
+   than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.
+ 
 +- Issue #22042: signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the file
 +  descriptor is in blocking mode.
 +
 +- Issue #16808: inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple.
 +  Patch by Daniel Shahaf.
 +
  - Issue #22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.
  
 -- Issue #22191: Fix warnings.__all__.
 +- Issue #2527: Add a *globals* argument to timeit functions, in order to
 +  override the globals namespace in which the timed code is executed.
 +  Patch by Ben Roberts.
 +
 +- Issue #22118: Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the
 +  resolution of relative URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396.
 +  Patch by Demian Brecht.
 +
 +- Issue #21549: Added the "members" parameter to TarFile.list().
 +
 +- Issue #19628: Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a -r
 +  option.
  
  - Issue #15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.