python core dump (SIGBUS) on Solaris

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:25:08 -0400, 
	Stephen J. Turner <sjturner at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> >>> C.load("webJudgeUser=garyp;")
...
>There's a bug in cPickle that causes heap corruption if loads is passed
>a string (as opposed to a pickled object) starting with 'g', 'h' or
>'j'.  Try applying the attached patch to the Python 1.5.2

	Wait a sec... why is it automatically trying to unpickle the
value of the cookie, when the value obviously wasn't pickled in the
first place.  While the cPickle core-dumping bug should definitely be
fixed, cookie.py also shouldn't try to unpickle things by default.

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