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Test not backported since they depend on 3.x quirks. Not
easy to rewrite them for 2.7.
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r88403 | r.david.murray | 2011-02-11 17:47:17 -0500 (Fri, 11 Feb 2011) | 3 lines
#11116: roll back on error during add so mailbox isn't left corrupted.
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Library
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+- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
+ a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
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- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
Patch by Stan Mihai.