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  r76636 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-12-02 21:37:54 +0100 (mer., 02 déc. 2009) | 5 lines

  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
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@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@
    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:: 3.2
+
+
 .. function:: getlogin()
 
    Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the