[Python-checkins] r45712 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_pty.py Misc/ACKS Modules/fcntlmodule.c

[Thomas Wouters]

On 4/26/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Should this be backported to 2.4?


On 4/25/06, thomas.wouters <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> > SF bug/patch #1433877: string parameter to ioctl not null terminated
> >
> > The new char-array used in ioctl calls wasn't explicitly NUL-terminated;
> > quite probably the cause for the test_pty failures on Solaris that we
> > circumvented earlier. (I wasn't able to reproduce it with this patch,
> but it
> > has been somewhat elusive to start with.)
> >


I think so, yes. The reason I haven't is that I want to make sure it doesn't
break, say, the Solaris tests, before I did the actual backport. It hasn't
so far, but given the elusiveness of the pty bug I'll wait until some more
testruns have happened.

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