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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-03-29 00:45:26 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-03-29 00:45:26 (GMT)
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Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
(typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter. No test as there always seems to be a risk of putting the machine on its knees.
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@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
+ (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
+
- The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.