[docs] Incorrect information for multiprocessing.Semaphore

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 17.05.2010 18:49, schrieb Mike Hobbs:
> There's a Note on the documentation for multiprocessing.Semaphore that
> says that sem_timedwait is unsupported on OS/X and that any timeout
> argument provided to acquire() will be ignored. I checked the
> Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c code on the 2.6, 3.0, and 3.1
> branches and I see that the module will fallback to sem_timedwait_save()
> if sem_timedwait is not available. That is, it will not ignore the
> timeout, but will instead emulate a timed wait using a sleep loop.

Hi Mike,

thanks for the report; this is now corrected in Subversion and should
be online soon.

regards,
Georg
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