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authorRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400
committerRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2011-03-16 09:41:32 -0400
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Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
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@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@ Tim Northover
Joe Norton
Neal Norwitz
Michal Nowikowski
+Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
Nigel O'Brian
Kevin O'Connor
Tim O'Malley
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@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
+ ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
+ that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
+
- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.