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r87834 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-07 22:43:59 +0100 (ven., 07 janv. 2011) | 5 lines
Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
Patch by Matt Bandy.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
+ non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
+ Patch by Matt Bandy.
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- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
can now handle dates after 2038.