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r77989 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-02-05 18:05:54 +0100 (ven., 05 févr. 2010) | 6 lines
Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
the interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
+ and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
+ library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
+ the interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
+
- Issue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.
- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list