The new wording is based on the comments in the code, which
match the actual behavior.

Locks are implemented using a mutex and a condition variable of the pthread
library on FreeBSD6. POSIX condition variables cannot be interrupted by signals
(see pthread_cond_wait manual page).

Cannot test an empty environment on Windows: Windows requires at least the
SYSTEMROOT environment variable to start Python.

Mac OS X adds __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING variable to an empty environment. Fix
also the test on the Py_ENABLE_SHARED config varible: test that the variable is
present, don't check it's value.

Try also to get more informations about the Mac OS X failure: display the keys
of the environment, instead of just the number of variables.

variables, start with an empty environment.

processes if negative or null.

Patch by July Tikhonov.

Analogous to the decode_header fix, this fix makes Header.append and
make_header correctly handle the unknown-8bit charset introduced by email5.1,
when the input to them is binary strings.  Previous to this fix the
make_header(decode_header(x)) == x invariant was broken in the face of the
unknown-8bit charset.

This updates b21fdfa0019c, which fixed this bug incorrectly.

This makes them work like the close provided by regular file objects.

All of the other methods in mailbox that create message objects take care to
close the file descriptors they use, so it seems to make sense to have
__getitem__ do so as well.

Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.

Fix os.fchown() and os.open()

Remove also trailing spaces and replace tabs by spaces.

AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP connection if
its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch written by Ezio
Melotti.

multiprocessing: Process._bootstrap() keeps a reference to the old process to
delay its finalization until after _run_after_forkers() as been executed. This
change should fix a crash on Mac OS X Tiger when a lock is released after a
fork.

Patch written by Charles-François Nataliv and Antoine Pitrou.

After 1a3e8db28d49, Windows XP could not os.stat at all due to raising
immediately when GetFinalPathNameByHandle wasn't available (pre-Vista).
The proper behavior in that situation is to just not attempt a traversal
rather than outright rejecting.

This change additionally handles a failed malloc by setting the error code
and returning false.

Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.

Use of DeviceIoControl to obtain the symlink path via the reparse tag was
removed. The code now uses GetFinalPathNameByHandle in the case of a
symbolic link and works properly given the added test which creates a symbolic
link and calls os.stat on it from multiple locations.

Victor Stinner also noticed an issue with os.lstat following the os.stat
code path when being passed bytes. The posix_lstat function was adjusted to
properly hook up win32_lstat instead of the previous STAT macro (win32_stat).

This allows findsource() to work in doctests.

A patch from Dirkjan Ochtman.