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gh-91401: Add a failsafe way to disable vfork. (#91490) 
Just in case there is ever an issue with _posixsubprocess's use of
vfork() due to the complexity of using it properly and potential
directions that Linux platforms where it defaults to on could take, this
adds a failsafe so that users can disable its use entirely by setting
a global flag.

No known reason to disable it exists. But it'd be a shame to encounter
one and not be able to use CPython without patching and rebuilding it.

See the linked issue for some discussion on reasoning.

Also documents the existing way to disable posix_spawn.
2022-04-25 16:19:39 -07:00
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NEWS.d gh-91401: Add a failsafe way to disable vfork. (#91490) 2022-04-25 16:19:39 -07:00
ACKS Revert "gh-85567: Register a cleanup function to close files for FileType objects in argparse (#32257)" (#91771) 2022-04-21 03:10:51 +02:00
coverity_model.c bpo-35808: Retire pgen and use pgen2 to generate the parser (GH-11814) 2019-03-01 15:34:44 -08:00
gdbinit gdbinit: Use proper define syntax (GH-19557) 2020-04-23 05:49:26 -07:00
HISTORY Fixed typos (GH-29211) 2021-10-28 21:39:27 +02:00
indent.pro
Porting
python-config.in bpo-38468 : Refactor python-config (#16749) 2019-10-15 11:18:47 -03:00
python-config.sh.in bpo-37925: Mention --embed in python-config usage (GH-15458) 2019-08-26 23:45:36 +02:00
python-embed.pc.in bpo-36721: Add --embed option to python-config (GH-13500) 2019-05-23 03:30:23 +02:00
python.man bpo-44584: Deprecate PYTHONTHREADDEBUG env var (GH-27065) 2021-08-06 13:11:12 +02:00
python.pc.in bpo-36721: Add --embed option to python-config (GH-13500) 2019-05-23 03:30:23 +02:00
README bpo-23469: Delete Wing IDE configuration files (GH-30067) 2021-12-14 15:01:13 +02:00
README.AIX bpo-42087: Remove support for AIX 5.3 and below (GH-22830) 2020-11-16 16:16:10 +01:00
README.coverity
README.valgrind closes docs: remove references to Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER (GH-30284) 2021-12-29 16:20:42 -06:00
requirements-test.txt Update tzdata to 2020.3 (GH-22856) 2020-10-21 06:40:43 -07:00
SpecialBuilds.txt gh-78607: Replace __ltrace__ with __lltrace__ (GH-91619) 2022-04-16 18:57:00 -04:00
stable_abi.txt gh-90501: Add PyErr_GetHandledException and PyErr_SetHandledException (GH-30531) 2022-04-15 19:57:47 +01:00
svnmap.txt
valgrind-python.supp bpo-35561: Supress valgrind false alarm on epoll_ctl(event) (GH-18060) 2020-01-19 23:38:37 +01:00
vgrindefs

README 

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
----------------

ACKS                    Acknowledgements
gdbinit                 Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY                 News from previous releases -- oldest last
indent.pro              GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS                    News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting                 Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
python-config.in        Python script template for python-config
python.man              UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python.pc.in            Package configuration info template for pkg-config
README                  The file you're reading now
README.AIX              Information about using Python on AIX
README.coverity         Information about running Coverity's Prevent on Python
README.valgrind         Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
SpecialBuilds.txt       Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
svnmap.txt              Map of old SVN revs and branches to hg changeset ids,
                        help history-digging
valgrind-python.supp    Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind
vgrindefs               Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)