Re: [pypy-dev] OS

2011-12-11 Thread Da_Blitz
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:11:02AM +1100, William ML Leslie wrote: > Well, you don't spend much time writing a kernel anyway - use an > existing kernel and then run python in userspace. It's pretty unusual > to need your code colocated with the kernel, but it would be easier to > do with a runtime

Re: [pypy-dev] from the psf board public mailing list.

2011-08-24 Thread Da_Blitz
> The United Security Conference is Sept 19 and 20 in San Francisco. > http://www.net-security.org/conference.php?id=445 Sept 9 is very > close for having a proposal ready, and then somebody would have > to go to SF. On the other hand, the sandboxing in PyPy is > definitely innovative, and if th

[pypy-dev] setpgrp and getpgrp platform:errors

2011-06-06 Thread Da_Blitz
Hi below is a patch that removes these errors during translation or when using py.py i am poking with things i do not fully understand here and would prefer it if someone told me i was an idiot and that args were passed to the functions for some reason (eg compatibility with the BSD's). accor

[pypy-dev] os.tmpnam warnings

2011-06-06 Thread Da_Blitz
Hi pypy 1.5 does not display a warning when using the os.tempnam and os.tmpnam functions. use of these functions is not recommended as they can cause security issues and hence python issues a RuntimeWarning below is a patch to app_posix.py to make it act more like cpython

[pypy-dev] Stackless work

2011-05-21 Thread Da_Blitz
on of this feature, just me wanting to throw a firecracker at someone to at the very least get it started Da_Blitz ___ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev

[pypy-dev] _pypy_wait.py fixes

2011-05-17 Thread Da_Blitz
Hi when calling wait3 or wait4 in the os module a ctypes error about return types is printed. a quick patch is included bellow to silence the message --- Da_Blitz diff -r eaba7adf5188 lib_pypy/_pypy_wait.py --- a/lib_pypy/_pypy_wait.pyThu Apr 28 11:46:10 2011 +0200 +++ b/lib_pypy