the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a monotonic
clock

Fuchs, updated by Tiago Gonçalves.

sys/xattr.h is glibc while attr/xattr.h is a separate library.

configure.in: Set _POSIX_C_SOURCE to 200809L, instead of 200112L, to activate
features from IEEE Stds 1003.1-2008.

configure: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).

<sched.h> is available (most notably on OpenBSD when built without pthread):
add an explicit configure check.

Copy/paste (from Python 3.2) failure

On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version anymore. It is now
always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending on the Linux version
used to build Python.

Even if Python is compiled on Linux 3.

Even if Python is compiled on Linux 3.

(I had the wrong impression that the problem didn't exist here)

releases).

(following PEP 11).  These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.

os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
functions (*BSD and OS X).  Also add new stat file flags for OS X
(UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).  Also add additional tests for
os.chflags() and os.lchflags(). (Tests by Garrett Cooper)

module compiles again on OS X with its more annoying #include requirements.

methods to the socket module.

I expect the system libc to use more accurate functions than Python. The GNU
libc uses for example FYL2X and FYL2XP1 hardware instructions on Intel FPU.

Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

signal module.