Call setreuid and setregid in a subprocess to avoid altering the test runner's
process state. Should fix issue8045.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 44cc4cb..3dd7f90 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -642,7 +642,14 @@
self.assertRaises(os.error, os.setreuid, 0, 0)
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setreuid, 1<<32, 0)
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setreuid, 0, 1<<32)
- os.setreuid(-1, -1) # Does nothing, but it needs to accept -1
+
+ def test_setreuid_neg1(self):
+ # Needs to accept -1. We run this in a subprocess to avoid
+ # altering the test runner's process state (issue8045).
+ import subprocess
+ subprocess.check_call([
+ sys.executable, '-c',
+ 'import os,sys;os.setreuid(-1,-1);sys.exit(0)'])
if hasattr(os, 'setregid'):
def test_setregid(self):
@@ -650,7 +657,14 @@
self.assertRaises(os.error, os.setregid, 0, 0)
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setregid, 1<<32, 0)
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setregid, 0, 1<<32)
- os.setregid(-1, -1) # Does nothing, but it needs to accept -1
+
+ def test_setregid_neg1(self):
+ # Needs to accept -1. We run this in a subprocess to avoid
+ # altering the test runner's process state (issue8045).
+ import subprocess
+ subprocess.check_call([
+ sys.executable, '-c',
+ 'import os,sys;os.setregid(-1,-1);sys.exit(0)'])
else:
class PosixUidGidTests(unittest.TestCase):
pass