NEWS entry for subprocess module C extension in r78946.

a31f57cc · Gregory P. Smith · fb94c5f1 · a31f57cc
Commit a31f57cc authored Mar 14, 2010 by Gregory P. Smith
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+- The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
+  by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
+  done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
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 - Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3.  The
  cElementTree module is updated too.