[issue4942] accept() on AF_UNIX sockets broken on arm as of 2.5.3

2009-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hamish Moffatt added the comment: Understood. Would it be appropriate to list this issue on the known bugs page? http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.4/bugs/ I can't reproduce it on x86, but it's probably not ARM specific. It might even be a compiler bug. I tried the same

[issue4942] accept() on AF_UNIX sockets broken on arm as of 2.5.3

2009-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hamish Moffatt added the comment: Thanks for your feedback, but I'm a bit confused by the note on the web site: "This is the last bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added." This implies further bug fixes are possib

[issue4942] accept() on AF_UNIX sockets broken on arm as of 2.5.3

2009-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
New submission from Hamish Moffatt : As of 2.5.3, calling accept() on an AF_UNIX socket fails on arm. The following exception occurs: SystemError: Negative size passed to PyString_FromStringAndSize I have attached a test program that creates a socket and connects to it. It works on x86-64 but