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Author	arigo
Recipients	Arfrever, arigo, barry, brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev
Date	2013-05-17.07:12:35
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Can someone confirm the answer to Arfrever's original question: a seemingly innocent use case of py_compile.compile(), which works fine until Python 3.3, when executed as root, can in Python 3.4 fundamentally break down a complete Posix system in a non-obvious way?

Can someone confirm the answer to Arfrever's original question: a seemingly innocent use case of py_compile.compile(), which works fine until Python 3.3, when executed as root, can in Python 3.4 fundamentally break down a complete Posix system in a non-obvious way?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-05-17 07:12:36	arigo	set	recipients: + arigo, barry, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, pitrou, Arfrever, python-dev, eric.snow
2013-05-17 07:12:36	arigo	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2013-05-17 07:12:36	arigo	link	issue17222 messages
2013-05-17 07:12:35	arigo	create