[Zope] zope 2.4.x crashing on RH 7.x

[Andy Dustman]

(I hate that Evolution has ctrl-return as a short-cut to send a
message...)

On 07 Sep 2001 16:04:56 +0100, Steve Alexander wrote:
> bak (kedai) wrote:

> >  Aiieee! 19489 exited with error code: 11
> 
> 
> This looks like the py_malloc problem in Python 2.11, which causes 
> segmenatation faults like you're seeing.

I did some more investigation on this problem, and my conclusion was
that a change in Python starting in version 2.0.1 (also in 2.1, which
chronologically came out first) is causing these crashes. In a nutshell,
when using O format with PyArgs_FromTupleAndKeywords() in < 2.0.1, you
get a new reference, and in >= 2.0.1, you get a borrowed reference. The
latter you need to Py_INCREF() if you want to keep. If you do this in <
2.0.1, you don't crash but you leak memory. See the zope-dev archives
for the whole story.

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