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gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS (#113354)
authorRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:33:34 +0000 (13:33 +0100)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:33:34 +0000 (13:33 +0100)
commit593b4d81d276b428f926debfe70d56ba94edf0e1
tree1fd46d8f7a6685552afa58bf521b2726d800f31d
parent6e02d79f96b30bacdbc7a85e42040920b3dee915
gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS (#113354)

* gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS

The system ndbm implementation on macOS has an undocumented limitation
on the size of values and can silently corrupt database files when those
are exceeded.

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
Doc/library/dbm.rst
Doc/library/shelve.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2023-12-21-11-53-47.gh-issue-74573.MA6Vys.rst [new file with mode: 0644]