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Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	gregory.p.smith, spe-anatol
Date	2008-01-23.21:49:47
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Message-id	<1201124989.81.0.935921615698.issue1789@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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A significant portion of the python standard library is broken due to incorrect use of the struct module on LP64 platforms. I'm attaching a patch that should clean it up. I need Mac OS X people to confirm that the Mac changes are sane. Its possible that the Lib/posixfile.py change could be a candidate for a 2.4 security backport if it turns out the _posixfile_.lock() implementation is indeed broken when a 64bit python is used on some platforms. I'll leave that up to the 2.4 releaser to decide.

A significant portion of the python standard library is broken due to
incorrect use of the struct module on LP64 platforms.  I'm attaching a
patch that should clean it up.

I need Mac OS X people to confirm that the Mac changes are sane.

Its possible that the Lib/posixfile.py change could be a candidate for a
2.4 security backport if it turns out the _posixfile_.lock()
implementation is indeed broken when a 64bit python is used on some
platforms.  I'll leave that up to the 2.4 releaser to decide.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-23 21:49:50	gregory.p.smith	set	spambayes_score: 0.0108907 -> 0.01089074 recipients: + gregory.p.smith, spe-anatol
2008-01-23 21:49:49	gregory.p.smith	set	spambayes_score: 0.0108907 -> 0.0108907 messageid: <1201124989.81.0.935921615698.issue1789@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-01-23 21:49:48	gregory.p.smith	link	issue1789 messages
2008-01-23 21:49:47	gregory.p.smith	create