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r83124 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-07-24 10:46:41 +0100 (Sat, 24 Jul 2010) | 15 lines
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r83088 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-07-23 14:53:51 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 8 lines
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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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4856c79..d9cb0ee 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -312,6 +312,13 @@
Extension Modules
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+- 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 #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
(e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where