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authorRichard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com>2012-11-15 18:22:23 +0000
committerRichard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com>2012-11-15 18:22:23 +0000
commit8f7c4b8a8551702a9f718098b6b3eea2e8d88bb0 (patch)
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Issue #16481: Merge
-rw-r--r--Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
index fe4ee3348c8..a0b3d68f9fc 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ else:
self.returncode = None
self._handle = hp
self.sentinel = int(hp)
+ util.Finalize(self, _winapi.CloseHandle, (self.sentinel,))
# send information to child
Popen._tls.process_handle = int(hp)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 870b7454d2d..7ffbd7b1351 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #16481: multiprocessing no longer leaks process handles on Windows.
+
- Issue #12428: Add a pure Python implementation of functools.partial().
Patch by Brian Thorne.