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r88022 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 17:17:07 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 7 lines
Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
Requested by Georg.
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Library
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+- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
+ length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
+ is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+
- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime