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authorThomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>2006-07-13 17:01:14 (GMT)
committerThomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>2006-07-13 17:01:14 (GMT)
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Fix #1521375. When running with root priviledges, 'gcc -o /dev/null'
did overwrite /dev/null. Use a temporary file instead of /dev/null.
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@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Library
Extension Modules
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+- Bug #1521375: The code in ctypes.util.find_library was
+ run with root priviledges, it could overwrite or delete
+ /dev/null in certain cases; this is now fixed.
+
- Bug #1467450: On Mac OS X 10.3, RTLD_GLOBAL is now used as the
default mode for loading shared libraries in ctypes.