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 wrote: > Carl Banks 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 possi

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 2.