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  • ndbm can't iterate through values on OS X #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.

(cherry picked from commit 593b4d8)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren [email protected]
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland [email protected]


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* pythongh-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.

(cherry picked from commit 593b4d8)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <[email protected]>
@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot mentioned this pull request Dec 23, 2023
gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS #113354
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ndbm can't iterate through values on OS X #74573
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ronaldoussoren merged commit 478da38 into python:3.11 Dec 23, 2023
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miss-islington deleted the backport-593b4d8-3.11 branch January 2, 2026 17:46
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