Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment: This is the expected behavior on OSX. Apple has a pretty odd interpretation of the standards wrt getgroups and setgroups behavior.
This behavior is not a bug in python Sent from my iPhone On 11 nov. 2010, at 22:17, Stephen Hansen <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Stephen Hansen <me+pyt...@ixokai.io> added the comment: > > This test is failing again, and IIUC, largely due to the same sort of issues: > http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/AMD64%20Leopard%203.1/builds/65 > > I was able to track down what exactly caused it to fail in this case on my > box, though. Whatever "posix.getgroups()" ends up calling, appears to be tied > to the current users login -- or at least, doesn't get updated when new > groups are added to the user. > > This failure happened because at some point after the buildbot was up and > running, I added a new user to the machine (totally unconnected to the > existing buildbot runner): this caused a new group to be added to the > buildbot runner's user. > > "id -G" starts returning that group immediately, but "posix.getgroups()" > returns the same list as it had before. I was able to further reproduce it in > Terminal, by having a console open, and compiling 3.1 there then adding a > user, and running the test. It fails. Opening up a new terminal window, > running the test-- and it succeeds. The original console continues to fail. > > ---------- > nosy: +ixokai > versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2 > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue7900> > _______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7900> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
