cpython/Misc
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gh-82300: Add track parameter to multiprocessing.shared_memory (#110778)
Add a track parameter to shared memory to allow resource tracking via the side-launched resource tracker process to be disabled on platforms that use it (POSIX).

This allows people who do not want automated cleanup at process exit because they are using the shared memory with processes not participating in Python's resource tracking to use the shared_memory API.

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
Co-authored-by: Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
2023-12-05 00:11:44 -08:00
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NEWS.d gh-82300: Add track parameter to multiprocessing.shared_memory (#110778) 2023-12-05 00:11:44 -08:00
rhel7 gh-95957: Add instructions for Tcl/Tk and OpenSSL on RHEL/CentOS 7 (#95964) 2022-08-16 13:44:02 +02:00
ACKS gh-102130: Support tab completion in cmd for Libedit. (GH-107748) 2023-12-05 08:24:56 +01:00
coverity_model.c
HISTORY Fix a misspelling of Interpeter -> Interpreter (GH-111040) 2023-10-18 15:09:45 -07:00
indent.pro
platform_triplet.c gh-108447: Detect platform triplets for x86_64 GNU/Hurd (#108045) 2023-08-24 22:37:20 +02:00
Porting
python-config.in gh-105407: Remove unused imports (#105554) 2023-06-09 12:50:31 +00:00
python-config.sh.in
python-embed.pc.in
python.man GH-92584: Remove references to Distutils in `PYTHONUSERBASE` (#108040) 2023-08-16 22:43:30 +02:00
python.pc.in gh-99942: python.pc on android/cygwin should link to libpython per configure.ac (GH-100356) 2023-02-21 17:21:24 -08:00
README gh-102809: Remove gdbinit mention in Misc/README (#103269) 2023-04-08 00:04:23 -07:00
README.AIX
README.coverity
README.valgrind closes docs: remove references to Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER (GH-30284) 2021-12-29 16:20:42 -06:00
SpecialBuilds.txt gh-108634: Py_TRACE_REFS uses a hash table (#108663) 2023-08-31 18:33:34 +02:00
stable_abi.toml gh-111089: Revert PyUnicode_AsUTF8() changes (#111833) 2023-11-07 22:36:13 +00:00
svnmap.txt
valgrind-python.supp gh-105182: Remove PyEval_AcquireLock() and PyEval_InitThreads() (#105183) 2023-06-01 13:41:56 +02:00
vgrindefs

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

Files found here
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ACKS                    Acknowledgements
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)