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.
a block cannot be freed, add its free items back to the free list, and
add its valid ints back to the small_ints array if they are in range.
This is necessary to avoid leaking when Python is reinitialized later.
typical published manuals, so people can more easily see what they're
really asking for. ;-)
Revise the verbatim environment: simple implementation, but more
compatible if a document also add \usepackage{verbatim} at the
beginning.
Declare \modindex, \bimodindex, \exmodindex, and \stmodindex
obsolete. These still work just fine, but \declaremodule should be
used instead. The obsolete macros will print a warning on standard
out.
If a filename on Windows starts with \\, it is converted to a URL
which starts with ////. If this URL is passed to urlparse.urlparse
you get a path that starts with // (and an empty netloc). If you pass
the result back to urlparse.urlunparse, you get a URL that starts with
//, which is parsed differently by urlparse.urlparse. The fix is to
add the (empty) netloc with accompanying slashes if the path in
urlunparse starts with //. Do this for all schemes that use a netloc.
Pathnames of files on other hosts in the same domain
(\\host\path\to\file) are not translated correctly to URLs and back.
The URL should be something like file:////host/path/to/file.
Note that a combination of drive letter and remote host is not
possible.
netloc from the base url as the default netloc for the resulting url
even if the schemes differ.
Once upon a time, when the web was wild, this was a valuable hack
because some people had a URL referencing an ftp server colocated with
an http server without having the host in the ftp URL (so they could
replicate it or change the hostname easily).
More recently, after the file: scheme got added back to the list of
schemes that accept a netloc, it turns out that this caused weirdness
when joining an http: URL with a file: URL -- the resulting file: URL
would always inherit the host from the http: URL because the file:
scheme supports a netloc but in practice never has one.
There are two reasons to get rid of the old, once-valuable hack,
instead of removing the file: scheme from the uses_netloc list. One,
the RFC says that file: uses the netloc syntax, and does not endorse
the old hack. Two, neither netscape 4.5 nor IE 4.0 support the old
hack.
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton
Greg Ward
Jack Jansen
Andrew M. Kuchling