From: Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:32:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days.
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Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 937fe9d7bb..99d2d90955 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with
+  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]
+
 - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return
   a string.  Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time,
   but a buffer object would be returned when the repetition count