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Author	loewis
Recipients	billm, georg.brandl, loewis
Date	2009-05-22.20:14:44
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Message-id	<1243023286.46.0.912591233769.issue6083@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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IMO, any refcounting bug has the potential as a security risk. So I think we should deprecate this with a warning, and eventually remove it, as billm proposes. It's probably debatable whether to backport the warning to 2.6 or earlier; I think we shouldn't, as many applications are probably valid.

IMO, any refcounting bug has the potential as a security risk. So I
think we should deprecate this with a warning, and eventually remove it,
as billm proposes.

It's probably debatable whether to backport the warning to 2.6 or
earlier; I think we shouldn't, as many applications are probably valid.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-05-22 20:14:46	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, georg.brandl, billm
2009-05-22 20:14:46	loewis	set	messageid: <1243023286.46.0.912591233769.issue6083@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-05-22 20:14:45	loewis	link	issue6083 messages
2009-05-22 20:14:44	loewis	create