[3.11] gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS (GH-113354)#113432
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…macOS (pythonGH-113354) * pythongh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS The system ndbm implementation on macOS has an undocumented limitation on the size of values and can silently corrupt database files when those are exceeded. (cherry picked from commit 593b4d8) Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
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The system ndbm implementation on macOS has an undocumented limitation
on the size of values and can silently corrupt database files when those
are exceeded.
(cherry picked from commit 593b4d8)
Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren@mac.com
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland erlend.aasland@protonmail.com
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