[pypy-commit] pypy ioctl-arg-size: document, close branch to be merged

[mattip]

Author: Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com>
Branch: ioctl-arg-size
Changeset: r94219:357e97475d38
Date: 2018-04-03 06:05 +0300
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/357e97475d38/

Log:	document, close branch to be merged

diff --git a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst
@@ -91,3 +91,9 @@
 .. branch: pyparser-improvements
 
 Improve speed of Python parser, improve ParseError messages slightly.
+
+.. branch: ioctl-arg-size
+
+Work around possible bugs in upstream ioctl users, like CPython allocate at
+least 1024 bytes for the arg in calls to ``ioctl(fd, request, arg)``. Fixes
+issue #2776