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r59240 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2007-11-30 21:37:22 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Add a NEWS entry for r59231
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r59241 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2007-11-30 21:51:40 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 5 lines
Issue #1521: on 64bit platforms, str.decode fails on very long strings.
The t# and w# formats were not correctly handled.
Will backport.
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r59242 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-30 22:11:28 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Fix for feature request #1528 Add os.fchmod
Georg Brandl has added fchmod() and fchown(). I've contributed lchown but I'm not able to test it on Linux. However it should be available on Mac and some other flavors of Unix.
I've made a quick test of fchmod() and fchown() on my system. They are working as expected.
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 059d184..608d6ae 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -2275,10 +2275,10 @@
# checks for library functions
AC_CHECK_FUNCS(alarm bind_textdomain_codeset chflags chown clock confstr \
- ctermid execv fork fpathconf ftime ftruncate \
+ ctermid execv fchmod fchown fork fpathconf ftime ftruncate \
gai_strerror getgroups getlogin getloadavg getpeername getpgid getpid \
getpriority getpwent getspnam getspent getsid getwd \
- kill killpg lchflags lchown lstat mkfifo mknod mktime \
+ kill killpg lchflags lchmod lchown lstat mkfifo mknod mktime \
mremap nice pathconf pause plock poll pthread_init \
putenv readlink realpath \
select setegid seteuid setgid \