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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-12-02 20:37:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-12-02 20:37:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 30b3b35cbac52719e44d8457fd9a7be09e6edd2c (patch) | |
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Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 0036845..fac37b0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ process and user. Availability: Unix. +.. function:: initgroups(username, gid) + + Call the system initgroups() to initialize the group access list with all of + the groups of which the specified username is a member, plus the specified + group id. Availability: Unix. + + .. versionadded:: 2.7 + + .. function:: getlogin() Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the |