[New-bugs-announce] [issue2413] os.strerror does not check for out of range argument

[Alexander Belopolsky]

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net>:

ISO/ANSI C strerror indicates out of range error by setting errno, but 
existing code incorrectly checks for NULL return value.  Attached patch 
(tested n Mac OS X) makes  os.strerror raise ValueError for out of range 
argument.

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files: posix-strerror.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 64023
nosy: belopolsky
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.strerror does not check for out of range argument
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9754/posix-strerror.diff

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