Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2013/10/24 Georg Brandl : > Am 24.10.2013 11:11, schrieb Ned Deily: > >> I don't know where any other potential 2.7.6 or 3.3.3 issues stand at this >> point. But I'd like Benjamin and Georg to propose an aggressive schedule so >> we can get these fixes out there. >> > > We've basically agreed to d

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 24, 2013, at 02:11 AM, Ned Deily wrote: >I don't know where any other potential 2.7.6 or 3.3.3 issues stand at this >point. But I'd like Benjamin and Georg to propose an aggressive schedule so >we can get these fixes out there. Does this problem affect 2.6? 2.6.9 final is scheduled for

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
Kind of on a tangent (and I suspect I know what the answer to my question will be), but here at work they have asked people who use Macs not to upgrade to Mavericks until Apple fixes one or more networking problems which make it basically unusable, especially when connecting to our VPN. I realize y

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 24.10.2013 13:36, schrieb Victor Stinner: > IMO the best place to fix the bug is in OpenSSL directly: RAND_bytes() > function of OpenSSL can detect a fork using getpid() and add more > entropy (in the child or maybe in the parent process). OpenSSL has > access to entropy sources and knows all mu

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Victor Stinner
2013/10/24 Christian Heimes : > There seems to be a problem with the security fix "Re-seed OpenSSL's > PRNG after fork": > > http://bugs.python.org/issue18747 > http://bugs.python.org/issue19227 Yes, Charles Francois warned us that adding a pthread_atfork() hook to add entropy may add a deadlo

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 24.10.2013 11:26, schrieb Georg Brandl: > Am 24.10.2013 11:11, schrieb Ned Deily: > >> I don't know where any other potential 2.7.6 or 3.3.3 issues stand at this >> point. But I'd like Benjamin and Georg to propose an aggressive schedule so >> we can get these fixes out there. >> > > We've

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 24.10.2013 11:11, schrieb Ned Deily: > I don't know where any other potential 2.7.6 or 3.3.3 issues stand at this > point. But I'd like Benjamin and Georg to propose an aggressive schedule so > we can get these fixes out there. > We've basically agreed to do rc releases this weekend. I do

[Python-Dev] OS X 10.9 Mavericks -> 2.7.6/3.3.3 updates needed

2013-10-24 Thread Ned Deily
On Tuesday, Apple released OS X 10.9 (a.k.a. Mavericks). There has already been a lot of interest in it, in part because Apple has made it available for free and has made it easy for users with 10.8, 10.7, and (most) 10.6 systems to upgrade directly to 10.9. Unfortunately, there are issues wi