New submission from Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: We received a report from a well-meaning security researcher who was confused by the non-zero and arbitrary value of st_ino in stat() results on Windows (where in Python 2 this was always zero). The researcher was worried that this was due to an uninitialized memory read. The actual cause is the way this field is filled with arbitary data: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/fileutils.c#L758
Let's make sure this is documented properly for all versions where we still update the docs. ---------- assignee: steve.dower components: Documentation messages: 312376 nosy: gvanrossum, steve.dower priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Document value of st_ino on Windows _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32878> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
