python-3 incidentally fixed an issue involving semaphores and pid namespaces while reworking code, but that change didn't make it to python-2.7. that means using the multiprocess module in python-2.7 in pid namespaces is dangerous. Chromium OS has backported-ish a fix though and posted it upstream (see URL). can we incorporate that into our 2.7 ahead of time ? we were running into problems specifically while using portage, albeit probably more in parallel than most people ...
Sure. I'll be adding 2.7.10 to the tree this week, and I will try to include it then.
+*python-2.7.10 (28 May 2015) + + 28 May 2015; Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> + +files/python-2.7.10-semaphore-pid.patch, +python-2.7.10.ebuild: + Version bump.