[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.5 -> default): Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.

Sat Apr 30 23:29:13 EDT 2016

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5b5fbce1db9c
changeset: 101194:5b5fbce1db9c
parent: 101189:1ceb91974dc4
parent: 101193:db5baad7ad69
user: Meador Inge <meadori at gmail.com>
date: Sat Apr 30 22:17:22 2016 -0500
summary:
 Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
for the `crle` program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by
Kees Bos.
files:
 Lib/ctypes/util.py | 1 +
 Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@
 else:
 cmd = 'env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/crle 2>/dev/null'
 
+ paths = None
 with contextlib.closing(os.popen(cmd)) as f:
 for line in f.readlines():
 line = line.strip()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -256,6 +256,12 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
+
+ The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
+ for the `crle` program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by
+ Kees Bos.
+
 - Issue #26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking
 against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host
 names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang
-- 
Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython
