macOS releases numbering has changed as of macOS 11 Big Sur. Previously, major releases were of the form 10.x, 10.x+1, 10.x+2, etc; as of Big Sur, they are now x, x+1, etc, so, for example, 10.15, 10.15.1, ..., 10.15.7, 11, 11.0.1, 11.1, ..., 12, 12.1, etc. Allow Python to build with single-digit deployment target values. Patch provided by FX Coudert.
Co-authored-by: Lawrence D’Anna <lawrence_danna@apple.com>
* Add support for macOS 11 and Apple Silicon (aka arm64)
As a side effect of this work use the system copy of libffi on macOS, and remove the vendored copy
* Support building on recent versions of macOS while deploying to older versions
This allows building installers on macOS 11 while still supporting macOS 10.9.
Moreover, the following tests now check the child process exit code:
* test_os.PtyTests
* test_mailbox.test_lock_conflict()
* test_tempfile.test_process_awareness()
* test_uuid.testIssue8621()
* multiprocessing resource tracker tests
The os.putenv() and os.unsetenv() functions are now always available.
On non-Windows platforms, Python now requires setenv() and unsetenv()
functions to build.
Remove putenv_dict from posixmodule.c: it's not longer needed.
Skip the test_posix.test_pidfd_open() test if os.pidfd_open() fails
with a PermissionError. This situation can happen in a Linux sandbox
using a syscall whitelist which doesn't allow the pidfd_open()
syscall yet (like systemd-nspawn).
As in title, expose C `raise` function as `raise_function` in `signal` module. Also drop existing `raise_signal` in `_testcapi` module and replace all usages with new function.
https://bugs.python.org/issue35568
Modify TestPosixSpawn to run Python using -I and -S options.
Disable site module to avoid side effects. For example, on Fedora 28,
if the HOME environment variable is not set, site._getuserbase()
calls pwd.getpwuid() which opens /var/lib/sss/mc/passwd, but then
leaves the file open which makes test_close_file() to fail.
* Fix integer overflow in os.readv(), os.writev(), os.preadv()
and os.pwritev() and in os.sendfile() with headers or trailers
arguments (on BSD-based OSes and MacOS).
* Fix sending the part of the file in os.sendfile() on MacOS.
Using the trailers argument could cause sending more bytes from
the input file than was specified.
Thanks Ned Deily for testing on 32-bit MacOS.
Pass os.environ's copy to new process created at test_posix:
test_specify_environment. Otherwise important variables such as
LD_LIBRARY_PATH are not set and the child process might not work at all
in an environment where such variables are required for Python to function.
* bpo-16500: Allow registering at-fork handlers
* Address Serhiy's comments
* Add doc for new C API
* Add doc for new Python-facing function
* Add NEWS entry + doc nit