[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-495021 ] Crash calling os.stat with a trailing

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Bugs item #495021, was opened at 2001-12-19 04:49
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Category: Windows
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 9
Submitted By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Summary: Crash calling os.stat with a trailing 
Initial Comment:
>>> import os
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>>> os.stat("c:\temp\")

[Assertion failure in debug builds]

We are freeing a pointer to a buffer on the stack!!!

Dumb error (mine - sorry :( ) in posixmodule.c.   
Attaching patch.

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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-12-19 11:07

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Thanks, Mark!  I saw the report on c.l.py but it didn't 
crash when I tried it, so I ignored it <frown>.  I 
rearranged the code and added some comments; please sanity-
check

Modules/posixmodule.c; new revision: 2.216

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