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Author	arigo
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Date	2005-04-02.12:31:59
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Logged In: YES user_id=4771 os.stat() doesn't always give consistent results on dev files. On my machine for some reason os.stat('/dev/null') appears to be random (and extremely large). I suspect that on the OP's machine os.stat('/dev/zero') is not 0 either, but a random number that turns out to be negative, hence a "bad argument" SystemError.

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os.stat() doesn't always give consistent results on dev files.  On my machine for some reason os.stat('/dev/null') appears to be random (and extremely large).  I suspect that on the OP's machine os.stat('/dev/zero') is not 0 either, but a random number that turns out to be negative, hence a "bad argument" SystemError.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-20 09:57:43	admin	link	issue1174606 messages
2008-01-20 09:57:43	admin	create