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  r83085 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-07-23 13:41:00 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 12 lines

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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).