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authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-07-03 15:58:06 (GMT)
committerZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-07-03 15:58:06 (GMT)
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Issue #21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module.
When ``None`` was passed as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx, PyMem_DEL was called on an uninitialized buffer. Patch by John Ehresman. (Also an incidental typo fix in a comment in test_winreg)
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Library
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+- Issue #21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed
+ as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.
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- Issue #21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before,
it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.