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…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.
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Thanks @ronaldoussoren for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.11, 3.12. |
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GH-113431 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.12 branch. |
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GH-113432 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch. |
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…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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…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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… macOS (GH-113354) (#113431) gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS (GH-113354) * gh-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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… macOS (GH-113354) (#113432) gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS (GH-113354) * gh-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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…macOS (python#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. Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
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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.
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