segfault using shutil.make_archive

[Tim]

On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 5:18:11 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, dieter 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

Thanks. I can make a test case. It doesn't look like it has been reported before; I'll add an issue once I can reproduce.

--tim