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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-08-06 20:18:29 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-08-06 20:18:29 (GMT)
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Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This bug was not present in the pure Python implementation. Yes, this is a serious issue.
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Library
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+- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
+ occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
+ "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
+ bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
+
- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.