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[Python-Dev] Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows

Mariatta Wijaya mariatta.wijaya at gmail.com
Tue May 23 11:44:15 EDT 2017 
+1

My understanding is this is a documentation change, marking it as
deprecated in 3.6.2 and a Misc News entry.
No actual code change.
Correct?



Mariatta Wijaya

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2017 11:17:18 -0700
> Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to propose a highly-accelerated deprecation period for this
> > specific feature, starting in CPython 3.6.2 and being "completed" in
> > 3.7.0, when we will hopefully move onto a newer libffi.
> >
> > In general, the "feature" is a misfeature anyway, since calling a native
> > function with incorrect arguments is unsupported and a very easy way to
> > cause information leakage or code execution vulnerabilities.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Does anyone have any reasons to oppose this? It already has votes from
> > another Windows expert and the 3.6/3.7 Release Manager, but we wanted to
> > see if anyone has a concern we haven't thought of.
>
> +1 from me.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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