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  r73825 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:49:29 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 9 lines

  Use select.poll() in subprocess, when available, rather than select() so that
  it does not fail when file descriptors are large.  Fixes issue3392.

  Patch largely contributed by Frank Chu (fpmc) with some improvements by me.
  See http://bugs.python.org/issue3392.
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  r73826 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:55:11 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  news entry for r73825
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Candidate for backporting to release31-maint as it is a bug fix and changes no
public API.