segfault using shutil.make_archive

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 05:17:54 EDT 2016


On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, dieter <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
> Memory allocations are frequent (in many places) and they fail rarely.
> Therefore, there is quite a high probability that some of those
> allocations fail to check that the allocation has been successful.
> If this happens (and the allocation fails), then a "SIGSEGV" is
> almost certain.

Which, BTW, doesn't stop them from being bugs. If this can be pinned
down, it definitely warrants a bugs.python.org issue.

ChrisA



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