[Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
Hello all. I seem to be encountering somewhat rare an infinite loop in hash table probing while importing _socket, as triggered by init_socket.c in Python 2.6, as seen/patched shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The problem only reproduces on 32 bit machines, on both -O2 and -O0 builds (which is how I

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on the > hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python would > have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) I do not think so; I do not see in in the

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: > Please submit a report to the tracker for this. > (Add me to the nosy list if you can) http://bugs.python.org/issue14903 However, I cannot add you to the nosy list, as you do not show up in the search. -- fdr _

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:58 -0700 > Daniel Farina wrote: >> >> Finally, what's especially strange is that I had gone a very long time >> running this exact version of Python, libraries, and application qui