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Mon Oct 22 18:37:57 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-October/122339.html

Am 22.10.2012 18:26, schrieb anatoly techtonik:
> I don't know what is abort() on Linux, but I believe coredumps is not
> something you want to get while setting some environment variable. On
> Windows it outputs a standard crash dialog box, which immediately
> raises questions about Python stability and potential exploitability
> in this direction.

abort() is a C stdlib function that kills the current process with
SGIABRT or similar. It's designed to draw attention to a fatal error.

Are you proposing that Python should rather use _exit() than abort()
here? Both forcedly shut down the process immediately.

Christian

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