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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gregory Becker <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gregory Becker <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gregory Becker <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gregory Becker <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gregory Becker <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue is that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for `forkserver`, because there the forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the parent process. What's more, it avoids the O(n) search for finished subprocesses, whether forkserver or not. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that Windows is supported now). Signed-off-by: Harmen Stoppels <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gregory Becker <[email protected]>
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This adds support for Python 3.14 in the new installer. The issue solved is
that the classic self-pipe trick does not work for
forkserver, becausethe forkserver process receives the signal that a child has finished, not the
parent process. So, the UI never updates and we never progress to the next
build.
This change is also nice for Python < 3.14, as it avoids the O(n) search for
finished subprocesses. Finally it's slightly more non-unix compatible (not that
Windows is supported now).