changeset:   101194:5b5fbce1db9c
parent:      101189:1ceb91974dc4
parent:      101193:db5baad7ad69
user:        Meador Inge <meadori@gmail.com>
date:        Sat Apr 30 22:17:22 2016 -0500
files:       Lib/ctypes/util.py Misc/NEWS
description:
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.


diff -r 1ceb91974dc4 -r 5b5fbce1db9c Lib/ctypes/util.py
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py	Sat Apr 30 01:30:57 2016 +0000
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py	Sat Apr 30 22:17:22 2016 -0500
@@ -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 -r 1ceb91974dc4 -r 5b5fbce1db9c Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Sat Apr 30 01:30:57 2016 +0000
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Sat Apr 30 22:17:22 2016 -0500
@@ -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