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Author ethan.furman
Recipients belopolsky, ethan.furman, gdr@garethrees.org, mark.dickinson, refi64, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2015-04-24.15:15:11
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I previously wrote:
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> Gareth, please ignore my comments about adding guards on the return value -- it is up
> to the O/S to use or adjust whatever Python returns.

Let me clarify that a bit: we need to protect against overflow from <long> to <int>; protecting against overflow from <int> to <O/S returncode size> is a separate issue.
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