Commit 39eb5eaf authored by Jason Madden's avatar Jason Madden

Doc tweaks [skip ci]

parent 3beecd57
......@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ without pre-built wheels or if wheel installation is disabled, a C compiler
`cffi`_ can optionally be installed to build the CFFI backend in
addition to the Cython backend on CPython.
.. tip:: Some Linux distributions are now mounting their temporary
directories with the ``noexec`` option. This can cause a
standard ``pip install gevent`` to fail with an error like
``cannot run C compiled programs``. One fix is to mount the
temporary directory without that option. See :issue:`570` and
:issue:`612` for examples.
__ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet
.. _`pip`: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
.. _`wheels`: http://pythonwheels.com
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......@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ include:
correctness, and performance. (Previously, the Python 2 implementation used the
undocumented class :class:`socket._fileobject`.)
- Locks raise the same error as standard library locks if they are
over-released.
over-released. Likewise, SSL sockets raise the same errors as their
bundled counterparts if they are read or written after being closed.
- :meth:`ThreadPool.apply <gevent.threadpool.ThreadPool.apply>` can
now be used recursively.
- The various pool objects (:class:`~gevent.pool.Group`,
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......@@ -331,6 +331,15 @@ _PLATFORM_DEFAULT_CLOSE_FDS = object()
class Popen(object):
"""
The underlying process creation and management in this module is
handled by the Popen class. It offers a lot of flexibility so that
developers are able to handle the less common cases not covered by
the convenience functions.
.. seealso:: :class:`subprocess.Popen`
This class should have the same interface as the standard library class.
"""
def __init__(self, args, bufsize=None, executable=None,
stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None,
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