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r83075 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-07-23 12:54:59 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 5 lines
Fix for issue 7895. Avoid crashing the interpreter
when calling platform.mac_ver after calling os.fork by
reading from a system configuration file instead of
using OSX APIs.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
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- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
(Jan Hosang).