Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in ctypes.util.

meadori · meadori · commit 8988ebf2a7a8 · 2016-04-30T21:56:59.000-05:00
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 --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ def _findLib_crle(name, is64):
             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 --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ Core and Builtins
 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
