A Misc/NEWS entry for issue 8052.

14 years ago · 33b24f7e7c
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 - Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
  future reinitialization.

+- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
+  all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
+  file descriptors.  It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
+  default close_fds=True behavior.
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 - Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
  into _PyParser_TokenNames.