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  r71299 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-04-05 16:43:58 -0700 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 3 lines

  Fixes issue5705: os.setuid() and friends did not accept the same range of
  values that pwd.getpwnam() returns.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 25163b9..bf0eec8 100644
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@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@
 - Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
   short file names.
 
+- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
+  returned them on 64bit platforms.
+
 Library
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