[Python-3000-checkins] r65175 - in python/branches/py3k: Modules/posixmodule.c

amaury.forgeotdarc python-3000-checkins at python.org
Mon Jul 21 23:13:14 CEST 2008


Author: amaury.forgeotdarc
Date: Mon Jul 21 23:13:14 2008
New Revision: 65175

Log:
Merged revisions 65174 via svnmerge from 
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r65174 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-21 23:06:46 +0200 (lun., 21 juil. 2008) | 3 lines
  
  On Windows, silence a Purify warning and initialize the memory passed to CryptGenRandom.
  Since python doesn't provide any particular random data, it seems more reasonable anyway.
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Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/   (props changed)
   python/branches/py3k/Modules/posixmodule.c

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Modules/posixmodule.c
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Modules/posixmodule.c	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Modules/posixmodule.c	Mon Jul 21 23:13:14 2008
@@ -6690,6 +6690,7 @@
 	result = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, howMany);
 	if (result != NULL) {
 		/* Get random data */
+		memset(PyBytes_AS_STRING(result), 0, howMany); /* zero seed */
 		if (! pCryptGenRandom(hCryptProv, howMany, (unsigned char*)
 				      PyBytes_AS_STRING(result))) {
 			Py_DECREF(result);


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