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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Dec 23, 2023

The system ndbm implementation on macOS has an undocumented limitation
on the size of values and can silently corrupt database files when those
are exceeded.

(cherry picked from commit 593b4d8)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren@mac.com
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland erlend.aasland@protonmail.com


📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--113432.org.readthedocs.build/

…macOS (pythonGH-113354)

* pythongh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS

The system ndbm implementation on macOS has an undocumented limitation
on the size of values and can silently corrupt database files when those
are exceeded.

(cherry picked from commit 593b4d8)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
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