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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-01-04 02:07:36 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-01-04 02:07:36 (GMT)
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Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than 2^32-1 bytes).
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@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #8650: zlib.compress() and zlib.decompress() raise an OverflowError if
+ the input buffer length doesn't fit into an unsigned int (length bigger than
+ 2^32-1 bytes).
+
- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork
to avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.