gh-106242: Make ntpath.realpath errors consistent with abspath when there are embedded nulls

[zooba]

• Issue: os.path.normpath truncates input on null bytes in 3.11, but not 3.10 #106242

[gpshead]

I tweaked the news entry.

[miss-islington]

Thanks @zooba for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.11, 3.12.
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[bedevere-bot]

GH-108251 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.12 branch.

[bedevere-bot]

GH-108252 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch.

[bedevere-bot]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbot wasm32-emscripten node (pthreads) 3.x has failed when building commit de33b5c.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Check the buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/1050/builds/2807) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (de33b5c) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

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https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/1050/builds/2807

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

== Tests result: ENV CHANGED ==

329 tests OK.

10 slowest tests:

• test_hashlib: 2 min
• test_math: 1 min 58 sec
• test_tarfile: 1 min 5 sec
• test_unparse: 56.8 sec
• test_io: 42.5 sec
• test_tokenize: 38.9 sec
• test_fstring: 28.7 sec
• test_unicodedata: 28.5 sec
• test_capi: 28.3 sec
• test_zipfile: 25.3 sec

1 test altered the execution environment:
test_capi

117 tests skipped:
test.test_asyncio.test_base_events
test.test_asyncio.test_buffered_proto
test.test_asyncio.test_context
test.test_asyncio.test_eager_task_factory
test.test_asyncio.test_events test.test_asyncio.test_futures
test.test_asyncio.test_futures2 test.test_asyncio.test_locks
test.test_asyncio.test_pep492
test.test_asyncio.test_proactor_events
test.test_asyncio.test_protocols test.test_asyncio.test_queues
test.test_asyncio.test_runners
test.test_asyncio.test_selector_events
test.test_asyncio.test_sendfile test.test_asyncio.test_server
test.test_asyncio.test_sock_lowlevel test.test_asyncio.test_ssl
test.test_asyncio.test_sslproto test.test_asyncio.test_streams
test.test_asyncio.test_subprocess
test.test_asyncio.test_taskgroups test.test_asyncio.test_tasks
test.test_asyncio.test_threads test.test_asyncio.test_timeouts
test.test_asyncio.test_transports
test.test_asyncio.test_unix_events test.test_asyncio.test_waitfor
test.test_asyncio.test_windows_events
test.test_asyncio.test_windows_utils test__xxinterpchannels
test__xxsubinterpreters test_asyncgen test_clinic test_cmd_line
test_concurrent_futures test_contextlib_async test_ctypes
test_curses test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_devpoll test_doctest
test_docxmlrpc test_dtrace test_embed test_epoll test_faulthandler
test_fcntl test_file_eintr test_fork1 test_ftplib test_gdb
test_generated_cases test_grp test_httplib test_httpservers
test_idle test_imaplib test_interpreters test_ioctl test_kqueue
test_launcher test_lzma test_mmap test_multiprocessing_fork
test_multiprocessing_forkserver test_multiprocessing_main_handling
test_multiprocessing_spawn test_openpty test_pdb
test_perf_profiler test_perfmaps test_poll test_poplib test_pty
test_pwd test_readline test_regrtest test_repl test_resource
test_select test_selectors test_smtplib test_smtpnet test_socket
test_socketserver test_ssl test_stable_abi_ctypes test_startfile
test_subprocess test_sys_settrace test_syslog test_tcl
test_tkinter test_tools test_ttk test_ttk_textonly test_turtle
test_urllib2 test_urllib2_localnet test_urllib2net test_urllibnet
test_venv test_wait3 test_wait4 test_webbrowser test_winconsoleio
test_winreg test_winsound test_wmi test_wsgiref test_xmlrpc
test_xxlimited test_zipfile64 test_zipimport_support test_zoneinfo

Total duration: 26 min 36 sec

Click to see traceback logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/buildbot/bcannon-wasm/3.x.bcannon-wasm.emscripten-node-pthreads/build/Lib/test/test_capi/test_watchers.py", line 532, in watcher
    raise MyError("testing 123")