socklen_t (unsigned int) for most size parameters. Apparently this is
part of the UNIX 98 standard.
[GvR: the changes to configure.in etc. that I just checked in make
sure that socklen_t is defined everywhere, so I deleted the little
part of Jack's mod to define socklen_t if not in GUSI2. I suppose I
will have to add it to the Windows config.h in a minute.]
"""
Problem description:
Run the following script:
import test.test_cpickle
for x in xrange(1000000):
reload(test.test_cpickle)
Watch Python's memory use go up up and away!
In the course of debugging this I also saw that cPickle is
inconsistent with pickle - if you attempt a pickle.load or pickle.dump
on a closed file, you get a ValueError, whereas the corresponding
cPickle operations give an IOError. Since cPickle is advertised as
being compatible with pickle, I changed these exceptions to match.
"""
Windows), soclose (on OS2), or to close (everywhere else).
Hopefully this fixes a new compilation error that I suddenly get on
Windows because the macro definition for close -> closesocket
apparently was done before including io.h, which contains a prototype
for close. (No idea why this wasn't an error before.)
backslash from the pathname argument to stat() on Windows -- while on
Unix, stat("/bin/") succeeds and does the same thing as stat("/bin"),
on Windows, stat("\\windows\\") fails while stat("\\windows") succeeds.
This modified version of the patch recognizes both / and \.
(This is odd behavior of the MS C library, since
os.listdir("\\windows\\") succeeds!)
The bug is in mmap_read_line_method(), and its loop that searches for
newlines. After the loop reaches EOF, eol is incremented and points
after the end of the memory. This results in readline() method
sometimes picking up and returning a byte after the end of the string.
This is usually a bogus \0, but it could cause SIGSEGV if it's after
the end of the page).
The patch fixes the problem. Also, it uses memchr() for finding a
character, which is in fact the "strnchr" the comment is asking for.
memchr() is already used in Python sources, so there should be no
portability problems.
The Setup.in entry is sort of a lie; it links with -lexpat, but
Expat's Makefile doesn't actually build a libexpat.a. I'll send
Expat's author a patch to do that; if he doesn't accept it, this
rule will have to list Expat's object files (ick!), or have a
comment explaining how to build a .a file.
None in an argument list *terminates* the argument list: further
arguments are *ignored*. This isn't kosher, but too much code relies
on it, implicitly. For example, IDLE was pretty broken.
Reformatted for 8-space tabs and fitted into 80-char lines by GvR.
Mark writes:
* the Win32 version now accepts the same args as the Unix version.
The win32 specific "tag" param is now optional. The end result is
that the exact same test suite runs on Windows (definately a worthy
goal!).
* I changed the error object. All occurences of the error, except
for 1, corresponds to an underlying OS error. This one was changed
to a ValueError (a better error for that condition), and the module
error object is now simply EnvironmentError. All win32 error
routines now call the new Windows specific error handler.
(1) In opendir(), don't call the lock-release macros; we're
manipulating list objects and that shouldn't be done in unlocked
state.
(2) Don't use posix_strint() for chmod() -- the mode_t arg might be a
64 bit int (reported by Nick Maclaren).
This was originally submitted by Martin von Loewis as part of his
Unicode patch; all I did was add special cases for Python int and
float objects and rearrange the object type tests somewhat to speed up
the common cases (string, int, float, tuple, unicode, object).
The attached patch set includes a workaround to get Python with
Unicode compile on BSDI 4.x (courtesy Thomas Wouters; the cause
is a bug in the BSDI wchar.h header file) and Python interfaces
for the MBCS codec donated by Mark Hammond.
Also included are some minor corrections w/r to the docs of
the new "es" and "es#" parser markers (use PyMem_Free() instead
of free(); thanks to Mark Hammond for finding these).
The unicodedata tests are now in a separate file
(test_unicodedata.py) to avoid problems if the module cannot
be found.
a Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS/Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS block, but it
calls Py_BLOCK_THREADS anyway. The change moves Py_BLOCK_THREADS
to inside the if, so it's only executed when the function
actually returns unexpectedly.
Attached you find an update of the Unicode implementation.
The patch is against the current CVS version. I would appreciate
if someone with CVS checkin permissions could check the changes
in.
The patch contains all bugs and patches sent this week and also
fixes a leak in the codecs code and a bug in the free list code
for Unicode objects (which only shows up when compiling Python
with Py_DEBUG; thanks to MarkH for spotting this one).
This patch fixes 3 small problems.
1) If a map is used which is generated with 'makedbm -a',
the trailing '\0' is now handled correctely.
2) The nis.maps() function skipped the first map in the output list.
3) The library '-lnsl' is added in Setup.in (needed on Linux glibc2 and
Solaris systems. Maybe on other systems too?)
[I note that this still doesn't work when you are using NIS+ --GvR]
This patch allows building the Python 'mpzmodule' under SuSE Linux
without having to install the source package of the GMP-libary.
The gmp-mparam.h seems to be an internal header file. The patch
shouldn't hurt any other platforms.
The same problem (mixed mallocs) exists for the pcre stack.
The buffers md->... are allocated via PyMem_RESIZE in grow_stack(),
while in free_stack() they are released with free() instead of
PyMem_DEL().
The buffers self->regex and self->regex_extra are allocated in
pcre_compile() and pcre_study() via pcre_malloc, but are released
via free() instead of pcre_free.
(e.g. used for ZIP files).
The patch includes code that says:
+ Copyright (C) 1986 Gary S. Brown. You may use this program, or
+ code or tables extracted from it, as desired without restriction.
My interpretation (and Jim's) is that Gary S Brown has no claims under
copyright, patent or other rights or interests. Lawyers might disagree.
only. Through some mysterious interaction, they would take 9 separate
arguments as well. This misfeature is now disabled (to end a
difference with JPython).
building the dicts used to inform the user about the defined
constants when using the *conf*() APIs.
Thanks to Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au>.
strings to integers for the *conf*() functions.
Added code to sort the tables at module initialization. Three
dictionaries, confstr_names, sysconf_names, and pathconf_names, are
added to the module as well. These map known configuration setting
names to the numeric value which is used to represent the setting in
the system call. This code is always called.
Updated related comments.
pathconf() names, from Sjoerd.
Added code to verify that these tables are properly ordered, only
included and used when CHECK_CONFNAME_TABLES is defined. This is only
needed to test the tables, so I haven't enabled this by default.
available since the interface is poorly defined on at least one major
platform (Solaris).
Moved table of constant names for fpathconf() & pathconf() into the
conditional that defines the conv_path_confname() helper; Mark Hammond
reported that defining the table when none of the constants were
defined causes the compiler to complain (won't allow 0-length array,
imagine that!).
In posix_fpathconf(), use conv_path_confname() as the O& conversion
function, instead of the conv_confname() helper, which has the wrong
signature (posix_pathconf() already used the right thing).
and TMP_MAX.
Converted all functions that used PyArg_Parse() or PyArg_NoArgs() to
use PyArg_ParseTuple() and specified all function names using the
:name syntax in the format strings, to allow better error messages
when TypeError is raised for parameter type mismatches.
Brian E Gallew, which were improved and adapted to OpenSSL 0.9.4 by
Laszlo Kovacs of HP. Both have kindly given permission to include
the patches in the Python distribution. Final formatting by GvR.
Brian E Gallew, which were improved and adapted to OpenSSL 0.9.4 by
Laszlo Kovacs of HP. Both have kindly given permission to include
the patches in the Python distribution. Final formatting by GvR.
new:
readline.get_begidx() -> int
gets the beginning index in the command line string
delimiting the tab-completion scope. This would
probably be used from within a tab-completion
handler
readline.get_endidx() -> int
gets the ending index in the command line string
delimiting the tab-completion scope. This would
probably be used from within a tab-compeltion
handler
readline.set_completer_delims(string) -> None
sets the delimiters used by readline as word breakpoints
for tab-completion
readline.get_completer_delims() -> string
gets the delimiters used by readline as word breakpoints
for tab-completion
fixed:
readline.get_line_buffer() -> string
doesnt cause a debug message every other call
simply moves the call to Tk_MainWindow() after the Tcl/Tk
initialization calls. The patch is unconditional, it works with
earlier and later versions as well.
reformatted.)
- Illegal padding is now ignored. (Recommendation by GvR.)
- Padding no longer removes characters from data string (resulting in
lost data/strings with negative lengths).
- Illegal characters outside the ASCII range are now ignored, instead
of possibly being remapped to a valid character.
the right variant of gethostbyname_r for us, since not all Linuxes are
equal in this respect. Reported by Laurent Pointal.
(2) On BeOS, Chris Herborth reports that instead of arpa/inet.h you
must include net/netdb.h to get the inet_ntoa() and inet_addr()
prototypes.
names match the documentation.
Removed broken code that supports the __methods__ attribute on ast
objects; the right magic was added to Py_FindMethod() since this was
originally written. <ast-object>.__methods__ now works, so dir() and
rlcompleter are happy.
Treat them as read-only, and make a copy as appropriately. This was
first reported by Bill Janssend and later by Craig Rowland and Ron
Sedlmeyer. This fix is mine.
"""
It fixes a memory corruption error resulting from BadPickleGet
exceptions in load_get, load_binget and load_long_binget. This was
initially reported on c.l.py as a problem with Cookie.py; see the thread
titled "python core dump (SIGBUS) on Solaris" for more details.
If PyDict_GetItem(self->memo, py_key) call failed, then py_key was being
Py_DECREF'd out of existence before call was made to
PyErr_SetObject(BadPickleGet, py_key).
The bug can be duplicated as follows:
import cPickle
cPickle.loads('garyp')
This raises a BadPickleGet exception whose value is a freed object. A
core dump will soon follow.
"""
Jim Fulton approves of the patch.
different values in the environ dict with the same key (although he
couldn't explain exactly how this came to be). Since getenv() uses
the first one, Python should do too. (Some doubts about case
sensitivity, but for now this at least seems the right thing to do
regardless of platform.)
- Don't call Py_FatalError() when initialization fails.
- Fix bogus use of return value from PyRun_String().
- Fix misc. compiler errors on some platforms.
I've updated cPickle.c to use class exceptions:
Changed pickle error types to classes:
PickleError
PicklingError
UnpickleableError
UnpicklingError
And change the handling of unpickleable objects so that an UnpickleableError
is raised with the unpickleable object as the argument. UnpickleableError
has a reasonable string representation and provides access to the problem
object, which is useful during debugging.
[I'm still waiting for patches to do the same to pickle.py.]
The test really wanted to distinguish between the two. So now we test
for __GLIBC__ instead. I have confirmed that this works for glibc and
I have an email from Christian Tanzer confirming that it works for
libc5, so it should be fine.
I have attached a new cPickle that adds a new control attribute
to unpicklers:
Added new Unpickler attribute, find_global. If set to None, then
global and instance pickles are disabled. Otherwise, it should be set to
a callable object that takes two arguments, a module name and an
object name, and returns an object. If the attribute is unset, then
the default mechanism is used.
This feature provides an additional mechanism for controlling which
classes can be used for unpickling.
Without this, if inflate() returned Z_BUF_ERROR asking for more output
space, we would report the error; now, we increase the buffer size and
try again, just as for Z_OK.
"""
The GNU folks, in their infinite wisdom, have decided not to implement
altzone in libc6; this would not be horrible, except that timezone
(which is implemented) includes the current DST setting (i.e. timezone
for Central is 18000 in summer and 21600 in winter). So Python's
timezone and altzone variables aren't set correctly during DST.
Here's a patch relative to 1.5.2b2 that (a) makes timezone and altzone
show the "right" thing on Linux (by using the tm_gmtoff stuff
available in BSD, which is how the GLIBC manual claims things should
be done) and (b) should cope with the southern hemisphere. In pursuit
of (b), I also took the liberty of renaming the "summer" and "winter"
variables to "july" and "jan". This patch should also make certain
time calculations on Linux actually work right (like the tz-aware
functions in the rfc822 module).
(It's hard to find DST that's currently being used in the southern
hemisphere; I tested using Africa/Windhoek.)
"""
is not an empty string, this means that you have arrived at the
end of the stream of compressed data, and the contents of .unused_data are
whatever follows the compressed stream.
data struct before calling gethostby{name,addr}_r(); (2) ignore the
3/5/6 args determinations made by the configure script and switch on
platform identifiers instead:
AIX, OSF have 3 args
Sun, SGI have 5 args
Linux has 6 args
On all other platforms, undef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R altogether.
- Use HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_6_ARG instead of testing for Linux and
glibc2.
- If gethostbyname takes 3 args, undefine HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R --
don't know what code should be used.
- New symbol USE_GETHOSTBYNAME_LOCK defined iff the lock should be used.
- Modify the gethostbyaddr() code to also hold on to the lock until
after it is safe to release, overlapping with the Python lock.
(Note: I think that it could in theory be possible that Python code
executed while gethostbyname_lock is held could attempt to reacquire
the lock -- e.g. in a signal handler or destructor. I will simply say
"don't do that then.")
Here's a patch to fix the race condition, which wasn't fixed by Rob's
patch. It holds the gethostbyname lock until the results are copied out,
which means that this lock and the Python global lock are held at the same
time. This shouldn't be a problem as long as the gethostbyname lock is
always acquired when the global lock is not held.
He writes:
I had an off-by-1000 error in floatsleep(),
and the problem with time.clock() is that it's not implemented properly
on QNX... ANSI says it's supposed to return _CPU_ time used by the
process, but on QNX it returns the amount of real time used... so I was
confused.
guessing what happened when strftime() returns 0. Is it buffer
overflow or was the result simply 0 bytes long? (This happens for an
empty format string, or when the format string is a single %Z and the
timezone is unknown.) if the buffer is at least 256 times as long as
the format, assume the latter.
converted was a "digit" -- use isalnum(). This test is there only to
guard against "+" or "-" being interpreted as a valid int literal.
Reported by Takahiro Nakayama.
up the _tkinter main loop. Not clear why; the _kbhit() call _tkinter
makes probably confuses the stdio library when buffering isn't set to
whatever it is by default.
f_fsid field, since it's not a scalar on all systems supporting this
call (in particular, it's a tuple of two longs on AIX). Since it's
not particularly useful, just nuke it. Adapted the doc strings too.
was appended to a list. Lists are reference count neutral, so the
string must be DECREF'd. Also added some checks for the return value
of PyList_Append().
Note: there are still some memory problems reported by Purify (I get
two Array Bounds Reads still and an Unitialized Memory Read). Also,
in scanning the code, there appears to be some potential problems
where return values aren't checked. To much to attack now though.
Purify) being caused by a bug in the readline library. Nothing we can
do about it.
Cause: readline_initialize_everything() throws away the return value
from rl_read_init_file(), but that happens to be the last reference to
a dynamically allocated char*.
decompressor object. This required adding a flag to the struct which is
true if initialisation was completed; on object destruction, deflateEnd()
is only called if the flag is true.
NOTE: There is still a bug of some sort in the behavior of zlib. In
at least one case, inflate returns Z_OK (which is typically
interpreted to mean that more output space is needed) when it has
finished inflating a buffer. This has been reported as a bug to the
zlib maintainers; we may need to change the Python interface.
> mpz.mpz('\xff') should return mpz(255). Instead it returns
> mpz(4294967295L). Looks like the constructor doesn't work with strings
> containing characters above chr(128).
Caused by using just 'char' where 'unsigned char' should have been used.
But IMHO, this problem really reveals an annoyance in Python's
makesetup. makesetup puts the global include directories "$(INCLUDEPY)
$(EXECINCLUDEPY)" in front of the directories defined by the module in
Setup. Therefore global (potentially older) header files are preferred
over the ones set by the module, which makes it hard to compile new
versions of modules when the old versions are installed. AFAIK, the
other way around is common practice for most other software.
This patch to makesetup would be an potential fix for this problem,
though I don't know if it breaks anything else.
- New copyright. (Open source)
- Added new protocol for binary string pickles that
takes out unneeded puts:
p=Pickler()
p.dump(x)
p.dump(y)
thePickle=p.getvalue()
This has little or no impact on pickling time, but
often reduces unpickling time and pickle size, sometimes
significantly.
- Changed unpickler to use internal data structure instead
of list to reduce unpickling times by about a third.
- Many cleanups to get rid of obfuscated error handling
involving 'goto finally' and status variables.
- Extensive reGuidofication. (formatting :)
- Fixed binary floating-point pickling bug. 0.0 was not
pickled correctly.
- Now use binary floating point format when saving
floats in binary mode.
- Fixed some error message spelling error.
- New copyright. (Open source)
- Fixed problem in seek method. The seek method should (and now does)
fill with nulls when seeking past the end of the "file".
device and control pseudo-device:
- first look for the device filename in the environment variable
AUDIODEV.
- if not found, use /dev/audio
- calculate the control device by tacking "ctl" onto the base device
name.
We now do this. Also, if the open fails, we call
PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename() to give a more informative error
message.
Added a fileno() method to the audio object returned from open().
This returns the file descriptor which can be used by applications to
set up SIGPOLL notification, as per the manpage.
solves the conflict with curses over the 'clear' entry point much
nicer. (Jack had checked in the changes to cstubs eons ago, but I
never regenrated glmodule.c :-( )
the compilation flags for the gl, fl and fm modules. This avoids a
name conflict with the curses module (both gl and curses have an entry
point called 'clear').
thread state of the thread calling mainloop() (or another event
handling function) rather than the thread state of the function that
created the client data structure.
2-digit years are now converted using rules that are (according to
Fredrik Lundh) recommended by POSIX or X/Open: 0-68 mean 2000-2068,
69-99 mean 1969-1999.
2-digit years are now only accepted if time.accept2dyear is set to a
nonzero integer; if it is zero or not an integer or absent, only year
values >= 1900 are accepted. Year values 100-1899 and negative year
values are never accepted.
The initial value of time.accept2dyear depends on the environment
variable PYTHONY2K: if PYTHONY2K is set and non-empty,
time.accept2dyear is initialized to 0; if PYTHONY2K is empty or not
set, time.accept2dyear is initialized to 0.
I had to make a slight diddle to work with Python 1.4, which
we and some of our customers are still using. :(
I've also made a few minor enhancements:
- You can now both get and set the memo using a 'memo'
attribute. This is handy for certain advanced applications
that we have.
- Added a 'binary' attribute to get and set the binary
mode for a pickler.
- Added a somewhat experimental 'fast' attribute. When this
is set, objects are not placed in the memo during pickling.
This should lead to faster pickling and smaller pickles in
cases where:
o you *know* there are no circular references, and
o either you've:
- preloaded the memo with class information
by pickling classes in non-fast mode or by
manipilating the memo directly, or
- aren't pickling instances.
1. Only DECREF the class's module when the module is retrieved via
PyImport_Import. If it is retrieved from the modules dictionary with
PyDict_GetItem, it is using a borrowed reference.
2. If the module doesn't define the desired class, raise the same
SystemError that pickle.py does instead of returning an AttributeError
(which is cryptic at best).
Also, fix the PyArg_ParseTuple in cpm_loads (the externally visible
loads) function: Use "S" instead of "O" because cStringIO will croak
with a "bad arguments to internal function" if passed anything other
than a string.
gethostbyaddr(). (Plain gethostbyname() returns only the IP address.)
This moves the code shared by gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname_ex()
to a subroutine.
Original patch by Dan Stromberg; some tweaks by GvR.
exceptions:
posix_error_with_filename(): New function which calls
PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename()
The following methods have been changed to call
posix_error_with_filename():
posix_1str()
posix_strint()
posix_strintint()
posix_do_stat()
posix_mkdir()
posix_utime()
posix_readlink()
posix_open()
INITFUNC(): os.error (nee PosixError) is PyExc_OSError
low-level Python exit handler. This can attempt to call Python code
at a point that the interpreter and thread state have already been
destroyed, causing a Bus Error. Given the intended use of
Py_AtExit(), I'm not convinced that it's a good idea to call it
earlier during Python's finalization sequence... (Although this is
the only use for it in the entire distribution.)
PythonCmd_Error() but failed to return. The error wasn't very likely
(only when we run out of memory) but since the check is there we might
as well return the error. (I think that Barry introduced this buglet
when he added error checks everywhere.)
# from my PC at home, but it can't send email :-(
Add a clarifying comment about the new ENTER_OVERLAP and
LEAVE_OVERLAP_TCL macros; get rid of all the bogus tests for deleted
interpreters (Tcl already tests for this; they were left over from an
earlier misguided attempt to fix the threading).
There were some serious problem with the thread-safety code.
The basic problem was that often the result was gotten out of
the Tcl interpreter object after releasing the Tcl lock.
Of course, another thread might have changed the return value
already, and this was indeed happening. (Amazing what trying
it on a different thread implementation does!)
The solution is to grab the Python lock without releasing the
Tcl lock, so it's safe to create a string object or set the
exceptions from the Tcl interpreter. Once that's done, the
Tcl lock is released.
Note that it's now legal to acquire the Python lock while the
the Tcl lock is held; but the reverse is not true: the Python
lock must be released before the Tcl lock is acquired. This
in order to avoid deadlines. Fortunately, there don't seem to
be any problems with this.
(The "sort of" is because it uses kbhit() to detect that the user
starts typing, and then no events are processed until they hit
return.)
Also fixed a nasty locking bug: EventHook() is called without the Tcl
lock set, so it can't use the ENTER_PYTHON and LEAVE_PYTHON macros,
which manipulate both the Python and the Tcl lock. I now only acquire
and release the Python lock.
(Haven't tested this on Unix yet...)
Tkinter. This adds a separate lock -- read the comments. (This was
also needed for Mark Hammond's attempts to make PythonWin
Tkinter-friendly.)
The changes have affected the EventHook slightly, too; and I've done
some more cleanup of the code that deals with the different versions
of Tcl_CreateFileHandler().
so that our #ifdef test has the wrong effect. Substitute hardcoded
values for some important symbols (but not for the whole range -- some
are pretty obscure so it's not worth it).
registers an input file handler for stdin with Tcl and handles Tcl
events until something is available on stdin; it then deletes the
handler and returns from EventHook().
This works with or without GNU readline, and doesn't busy-wait.
It still doesn't work for Mac or Windows :-(
Rationalized the doc strings.
Also simplify the module initialization -- we don't need a __version__
which is set to "$Rev" :-) and we don't need a fatal error when the
initialization fails.
- When facility not specified to syslog() method, use default from openlog()
(This is how it was claimed to work in the documentation)
- Potential resource leak of o_ident, now cleaned up in closelog()
- Minor comment accuracy fix.
most common interface to Tcl, the call() method, by maybe 20-25%.
The speedup code avoids the construction of a Tcl command string from
the argument list -- the Tcl argument list is immediately parsed back
by Tcl_Eval() into a list that is *guaranteed* (by Tcl_Merge()) to be
exactly the same list, so instead we look up the command info and call
the command function directly. If the lookup fails, we fall back to
the old method (Tcl_Merge() + Tcl_Eval()) so we don't need to worry
about special cases like undefined commands or the occasional command
("after") that sets the info.proc pointer to NULL -- let TclEval()
deal with these.
the address of the Tcl interpreter object, as an integer. Not very
useful for the Python programmer, but this can be called by another C
extension that needs to make calls into the Tcl/Tk C API and needs to
get the address of the Tcl interpreter object. A simple cast of the
return value to (Tcl_Interp *) will do the trick now.
type for all functions. However many function call PyArg_Parse() and
need a 0. This is so that when they didn't change anything, the can
do Py_INCREF(args); return args. Reverted this back. For atof(),
there's no reason not to use PyArg_ParseTuple(), so I changed the code
(atoi and atol already used that).
it seems harmless for other platforms. It plays tricks with the name
of the library used to link with. Apparently DG/UX really wants a
shared library to link with if it wants shared modules to use symbols
from the library. I'm not sure why this wasn't an issue with 1.4;
DG/UX seems to be the only platform where moving to a single library
made things harder!
BTW This adds a target to create libpython$(VERSION).so; however this
target is *only* for DG/UX.
- Loading non-binary string pickles checks for insecure
strings. This is needed because cPickle (still)
uses a restricted eval to parse non-binary string pickles.
This change is needed to prevent untrusted
pickles like::
"S'hello world'*2000000\012p0\012."
from hosing an application.
- User-defined types can now support unpickling without
executing a constructor.
The second value returned from __reduce__ can now be None,
rather than an argument tuple. On unpickling, if the second
value returned from __reduce__ during pickling was None, then
rather than calling the first value returned from __reduce__,
directly, the __basicnew__ method of the first value returned
from __reduce__ is called without arguments.
- New option -x, to skip first line of script
- Use the correct platform-specific delimiter and library location in
the usage message
(Also removed two blank lines and moved one line around so that each
part of the usage message is again under 512 bytes and the whole usage
message still fits in 23 lines.)
the default build on Linux (because it requires -lcrypt which isn't
availabel everywhere).
Some improvements to the _tkinter build line suggested by Case Roole.
maxsplit which is implemented in string.py but wasn't here. The
reference manual doesn't define what happens when maxsplit is negative
or larger than the number of occurrences, but in either case, I
implemented this as all get replaced. Default value is zero which
replaces all occurrences.
signal handlers in a fork()ed child process when Python is compiled with
thread support. The bug was reported by Scott <scott@chronis.icgroup.com>.
What happens is that after a fork(), the variables used by the signal
module to determine whether this is the main thread or not are bogus,
and it decides that no thread is the main thread, so no signals will
be delivered.
The solution is the addition of PyOS_AfterFork(), which fixes the signal
module's variables. A dummy version of the function is present in the
intrcheck.c source file which is linked when the signal module is not
used.
to inside floatsleep(). This is necessary because floatsleep() does
the error handling and it must have grabbed the interpreter lock and
thread state before it can do so.
save and restore the tstate, but explicitly calling
PyEval_SaveThread() does reset it! While I think about how to fix
this for real, here's a fix that avoids getting a fatal error.
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Barry Warsaw
Jeremy Hylton
Andrew M. Kuchling
Greg Ward
Ken Manheimer