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| author | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2010-12-14 16:26:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2010-12-14 16:26:30 (GMT) |
| commit | f8a6391991946a3e9ce79dbca1c20aec7596f8e0 (patch) | |
| tree | d8b4fb284acee33d03da0c4a5ec3c0d997e12079 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 312efbc1158a15cb877d8bb078c19f95b23596e6 (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 87238 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r87238 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-14 11:20:53 -0500 (Tue, 14 Dec 2010) | 7 lines
#775964: skip YP/NIS entries instead of failing the test
Also includes doc updates mentioning that these entries may not
be retrievable via getgrnam and getgrgid.
Patch by Bobby Impollonia.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/grp.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/grp.rst b/Doc/library/grp.rst index a71c308..f20a212 100644 --- a/Doc/library/grp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/grp.rst @@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ correspond to the members of the ``group`` structure (Attribute field below, see The gid is an integer, name and password are strings, and the member list is a list of strings. (Note that most users are not explicitly listed as members of the group they are in according to the password database. Check both databases -to get complete membership information.) +to get complete membership information. Also note that a ``gr_name`` that +starts with a ``+`` or ``-`` is likely to be a YP/NIS reference and may not be +accessible via :func:`getgrnam` or :func:`getgrgid`.) It defines the following items: |