environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
message:
Reconcile with the 2.6svn branch. The 2.6.7 release will be made from
Subversion, but there were differences, so this brings them in sync. These
changes should *not* propagate to any newer versions.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/release27-maint
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r82969 | stefan.krah | 2010-07-19 15:14:01 +0200 (Mon, 19 Jul 2010) | 14 lines
Issue #9036: Throughout the code base, Py_CHARMASK is used on 8-bit wide
signed/unsigned chars or on integers directly derived from those. In all
cases, it could be replaced by a simple cast to (unsigned char). Reasons
for the change:
a) Make the comment more explicit.
b) If char is unsigned, the cast is optimized away.
c) If char is unsigned, gcc emits spurious "array subscript
has type 'char'" warnings.
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r81398 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-21 19:12:38 +0200 (ven., 21 mai 2010) | 6 lines
Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
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