diff Patch to fix MemoryError when trying to fdopen files in AIX 64-bit See http://bugs.python.org/issue6600 From apytest: [...] self.stdin = os.fdopen(p2cwrite, 'wb', bufsize) MemoryError --- python/Modules/posixmodule.c.orig 2009-08-05 09:47:07.000000000 -0700 +++ python/Modules/posixmodule.c 2009-08-05 09:48:46.000000000 -0700 @@ -6451,7 +6451,7 @@ return NULL; /* Sanitize mode. See fileobject.c */ - mode = PyMem_MALLOC(strlen(orgmode)+3); + mode = PyMem_MALLOC(3+strlen(orgmode)); if (!mode) { PyErr_NoMemory(); return NULL;