summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Modules/main.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules/main.c')
-rw-r--r--Modules/main.c20
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c
index 5a985a5c16..ed84aa0286 100644
--- a/Modules/main.c
+++ b/Modules/main.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static wchar_t **orig_argv;
static int orig_argc;
/* command line options */
-#define BASE_OPTS L"bBc:dEhiJm:OqsStuvVW:xX:?"
+#define BASE_OPTS L"bBc:dEhiJm:OqRsStuvVW:xX:?"
#define PROGRAM_OPTS BASE_OPTS
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static char *usage_2 = "\
-O : optimize generated bytecode slightly; also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x\n\
-OO : remove doc-strings in addition to the -O optimizations\n\
-q : don't print version and copyright messages on interactive startup\n\
+-R : use a pseudo-random salt to make hash() values of various types be\n\
+ unpredictable between separate invocations of the interpreter, as\n\
+ a defence against denial-of-service attacks\n\
-s : don't add user site directory to sys.path; also PYTHONNOUSERSITE\n\
-S : don't imply 'import site' on initialization\n\
";
@@ -99,8 +102,14 @@ static char *usage_5 =
"PYTHONHOME : alternate <prefix> directory (or <prefix>%c<exec_prefix>).\n"
" The default module search path uses %s.\n"
"PYTHONCASEOK : ignore case in 'import' statements (Windows).\n"
-"PYTHONIOENCODING: Encoding[:errors] used for stdin/stdout/stderr.\n"
-;
+"PYTHONIOENCODING: Encoding[:errors] used for stdin/stdout/stderr.\n\
+";
+static char *usage_6 = "\
+PYTHONHASHSEED: if this variable is set to ``random``, the effect is the same \n\
+ as specifying the :option:`-R` option: a random value is used to seed the\n\
+ hashes of str, bytes and datetime objects. It can also be set to an integer\n\
+ in the range [0,4294967295] to get hash values with a predictable seed.\n\
+";
static int
usage(int exitcode, wchar_t* program)
@@ -116,6 +125,7 @@ usage(int exitcode, wchar_t* program)
fputs(usage_3, f);
fprintf(f, usage_4, DELIM);
fprintf(f, usage_5, DELIM, PYTHONHOMEHELP);
+ fputs(usage_6, f);
}
#if defined(__VMS)
if (exitcode == 0) {
@@ -429,6 +439,10 @@ Py_Main(int argc, wchar_t **argv)
Py_QuietFlag++;
break;
+ case 'R':
+ Py_HashRandomizationFlag++;
+ break;
+
/* This space reserved for other options */
default: