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| author | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2010-07-23 13:53:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2010-07-23 13:53:51 (GMT) |
| commit | b6ee4f5bfcaad3c63055ec0e99c0382ff23548d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4958ef7cff60aff942b9b43c4344c5e8fb3f9806 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | a57edd0e9e24adc8c45ecca2f6f9c14d8cebd9f4 (diff) | |
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This fixes issue7900 by adding code that deals
with the fact that getgroups(2) might return
more that MAX_GROUPS on OSX.
See the issue (and python-dev archives) for the
gory details. Summarized: OSX behaves rather oddly
and Apple says this is intentional.
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@@ -1440,6 +1440,13 @@ Library Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly + compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does + not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always + returns the same information as the id command. + + os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX. + - Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional. - Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode |