[Python-Dev] AMD64-W2k8 buildbot wedged

Mon Jul 14 07:03:55 CEST 2008

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:35 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> The compilation step on this buildbot is failing because it can't delete
>> or overwrite any of the Python DLLs [1]. Is there any way to fix this
>> remotely, or at least to tell why kill_python isn't doing the trick?
>> That is in the log:
>> TerminateProcess failed: 5
>> where 5 is ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. Now, *why* the system is refusing to
> terminate the process is difficult to say. It's a general Windows
> problem: the system doesn't support forced process termination in a
> reliable manner.
>> In any case, Trent seems to have fixed the problem.
>>> The number of 64-bit safeness
>> warnings being emitted by the current trunk is also fairly worrying)
>> Do you have a specific one in mind? The ones truncating size_t/ssize_t
> should only matter when you actually do have data larger than 2GiB.
>
http://bugs.python.org/issue3026 comes to mind.
And I would rather use a little bit different wording: The ones
truncating size_t/ssize_t do matter, unless you know in advance that
you will always deal with data lesser than 2GiB.
Regards,
- Ralf