[issue9812] cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2011-06-01 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- resolution: - out of date status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9812 ___

Re: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-09 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote: Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes: Since Python 2.7 is released, Python 2.5 is no longer accepting bug fixes, only security fixes.  So be aware. Segfaults should be treated as security holes unless there's

[issue9812] cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-09 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
: test_cpickle.nested_dicts_in_threaded_env.diff keywords: patch messages: 115950 nosy: kdombrowski priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env type: crash versions: Python 2.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18812/test_cpickle.nested_dicts_in_threaded_env.diff

[issue9812] cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-09 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: Python has several known crashers, they are not considered as security holes. It seems that FreeBSD has a small stack size for threads (64k); did you try to increase it with thread.stack_size(10**6)? -- nosy:

cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-08 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hi all, Before creating an issue @ bugs.python.org I wanted to run the following by everyone We are having a difficult time with what looks like a cPickle issue when given a data structure containing 15 nested dictionaries, but only when threading is involved Environment is FreeBSD 8, Python

Re: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-08 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Wednesday 08 September 2010, it occurred to Kenneth Dombrowski to exclaim: Environment is FreeBSD 8, Python 2.5.5 Which architecture? Also, Python 2.5 is frightfully old. There's not really any problem with still using it, but nobody's maintaining it upstream, so don't bother reporting a

Re: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-08 Thread Carl Banks
On Sep 8, 11:58 am, Kenneth Dombrowski kdombrow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Before creating an issue @ bugs.python.org I wanted to run the following by everyone We are having a difficult time with what looks like a cPickle issue when given a data structure containing 15 nested dictionaries,

Re: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes: Since Python 2.7 is released, Python 2.5 is no longer accepting bug fixes, only security fixes. So be aware. Segfaults should be treated as security holes unless there's convincing reasons that no exploit is possible. So the bug should be reported

Re: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

2010-09-08 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.583.1283975836.29448.python-l...@python.org, Thomas Jollans tho...@jollybox.de wrote: Also, Python 2.5 is frightfully old. [...] Frightfully??? I'm sure plenty of people are still using Python 2.3 in production environments (certainly my last job did as of 1.5 years ago,