Am 22.10.2012 18:26, schrieb anatoly techtonik: > I don't know what is abort() on Linux, but I believe coredumps is not > something you want to get while setting some environment variable. On > Windows it outputs a standard crash dialog box, which immediately > raises questions about Python stability and potential exploitability > in this direction.
abort() is a C stdlib function that kills the current process with SGIABRT or similar. It's designed to draw attention to a fatal error. Are you proposing that Python should rather use _exit() than abort() here? Both forcedly shut down the process immediately. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
