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| author | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2010-07-23 15:46:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2010-07-23 15:46:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 47076f7897427d34a8025c1b4f330d1312facc83 (patch) | |
| tree | 147962d4e226ee25121a12e5205d133d9f198117 /Misc | |
| parent | 7180d4878114f8e427764b29a781b7c0a7e1f2dc (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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@@ -316,6 +316,13 @@ 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 #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses, do not link the readline module against ncursesw. The additional restriction of linking the readline and curses modules |