From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:52:58 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing to... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0b2~312
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d7f40c6131fee07fdae3c43ce4d7ef80c6dc650;p=python

Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing to a directory.
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index 19488dcd00,699b4fb18b..03b98c732c
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@@@ -16,74 -16,6 +16,77 @@@ Core and Builtin
  - Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
    return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
  
 +- Issue #15229: An OSError subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
 +  OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes
 +  when calling str() on them.
 +
 +Library
 +-------
 +
++- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
++  pointing to a directory.
++
 +- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
 +
 +- Issue #15166: Implement imp.get_tag() using sys.implementation.cache_tag.
 +
 +- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when imprortlib.__init__ can't find
 +  _frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
 +
 +- Issue #15030: importlib.abc.PyPycLoader now supports the new source size
 +  header field in .pyc files.
 +
 +- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
 +  files on flush().
 +
 +- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command.
 +  Patch by Jakub Wilk.
 +
 +- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
 +  created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
 +  mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
 +
 +- Issue 10924: Fixed mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for cryptographic
 +  purpose.
 +
 +Extension Modules
 +-----------------
 +
 +- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
 +
 +Tools/Demos
 +-----------
 +
 +- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have
 +  been enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within
 +  the "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
 +    * C frames that are waiting on the GIL
 +    * C frames that are garbage-collecting
 +    * C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
 +
 +Build
 +-----
 +
 +- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
 +  for host compiler.
 +
 +- Issue #15235: Allow Berkley DB versions up to 5.3 to build the dbm module.
 +
 +
 +What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 1?
 +==================================
 +
 +*Release date: 27-Jun-2012*
 +
 +Core and Builtins
 +-----------------
 +
 +- Fix a (most likely) very rare memory leak when calling main() and not being
 +  able to decode a command-line argument.
 +
 +- Issue #14815: Use Py_ssize_t instead of long for the object hash, to
 +  preserve all 64 bits of hash on Win64.
 +
  - Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() or readall() methods
    no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted.
    IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR