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authorMichael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>2003-03-03 12:29:42 (GMT)
committerMichael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>2003-03-03 12:29:42 (GMT)
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Fix bug
[ 555817 ] Flawed fcntl.ioctl implementation. with my patch that allows for an array to be mutated when passed as the buffer argument to ioctl() (details complicated by backwards compatibility considerations -- read the docs!).
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@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
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+- Modified the fcntl.ioctl() function to allow modification of a passed
+ mutable buffer (for details see the reference documentation).
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- Made user requested changes to the itertools module.
Subsumed the times() function into repeat().
Added chain() and cycle().