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Author vstinner
Recipients Arfrever, Jim.Jewett, asvetlov, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, skrah, vstinner
Date 2012-04-05.22:39:08
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> The difference is that it's a (presumably interruptible) infinite loop,
> not a stack overflow. There's no crash and therefore no security issue.

Ok, it looks fair. The patch looks good, but as written by Antoine: tests may need to be fixed.

Is anyone motivated to "convert" removed crashers to unit tests? Not me. Crashers were only written to crash Python. New tests should be written instead.
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2012-04-05 22:39:10vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, gvanrossum, rhettinger, gregory.p.smith, ncoghlan, pitrou, Arfrever, r.david.murray, asvetlov, skrah, Jim.Jewett
2012-04-05 22:39:10vstinnersetmessageid: <1333665550.2.0.765699324396.issue14417@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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