[python-committers] Data corruption issue (C IO library)

[Georg Brandl]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> Le jeudi 06 août 2009 à 23:32 -0700, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :
>> > I just meant to +1 the "we need to make a new micro-release right now"
>> > paragraph. Logistically, I think it needs to be a full binary release
>> > but it could be identical to 3.1 except for the one patch. 
>> 
>> Looking at Misc/NEWS, there are a number of worthy bugfixes already in.
> 
> Indeed, a couple of which could be considered serious:
> 
> - Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
>   occurred in the argument chain.
> 
> - Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
> 
> - Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.

Less serious, but a showstopper nevertheless: #6126, which basically renders
pdb unusable.  I'll try to remember to commit the fix as soon as SVN is back.

Georg

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