[New-bugs-announce] [issue34563] invalid assert on big output of multiprocessing.Process

[Oleksandr Buchkovskyi]

New submission from Oleksandr Buchkovskyi <olex.buchkovsky at gmail.com>:

the bug is reproduced on big multiprocessing.Process output
when the size of the output gets bigger than signed int the value becomes negative, thus
```            
assert left > 0
```
in multiprocessing/connection.py:337 raises an exception like the following

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\GitHub\cpython\lib\threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "D:\GitHub\cpython\lib\threading.py", line 865, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "D:\GitHub\cpython\lib\multiprocessing\pool.py", line 470, in _handle_results
    task = get()
  File "D:\GitHub\cpython\lib\multiprocessing\connection.py", line 250, in recv
    buf = self._recv_bytes()
  File "D:\GitHub\cpython\lib\multiprocessing\connection.py", line 318, in _recv_bytes
    return self._get_more_data(ov, maxsize)
  File "D:\GitHub\cpython\lib\multiprocessing\connection.py", line 337, in _get_more_data
    assert left > 0
AssertionError
```


this assert looks invalid in this case because in C code the left value is DWORD (unsigned long), which cannot be negative by definition.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: invalid_assert_bug_reproduce.py
messages: 324465
nosy: Oleksandr Buchkovskyi
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: invalid assert on big output of multiprocessing.Process
type: crash
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47778/invalid_assert_bug_reproduce.py

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