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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, flox, l0nwlf, loewis, michael.foord, orsenthil, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren
Date	2010-07-08.20:38:58
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Message-id	<AANLkTimWtlSIul9SyFaLr5cU7zmWy3AQlVp8oOhXYGKb@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<1278621027.6.0.125418932986.issue7900@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Ronald Oussoren <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > Note that explicitly setting the effective uid and gid of processes is somewhat frowned upon by Apple, they'd prefer if all daemon processes where started using launchd and used launchd to start them using the correct permissions. A tool like ssh should use initgroup to initialize the effective group list, and that will do the right thing (which appearently is the odd behaviour I saw in new Terminal sessions). IIRC, the tests for initgroup in one of my patches also break with _DARWIN_C_SOURCE on.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Ronald Oussoren <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> Note that explicitly setting the effective uid and gid of processes is somewhat frowned upon by Apple, they'd prefer if all daemon processes where started using launchd and used launchd to start them using the correct permissions. A tool like ssh should use initgroup to initialize the effective group list, and that will do the right thing (which appearently is the odd behaviour I saw in new Terminal sessions).

IIRC, the tests for initgroup in one of my patches also break with
_DARWIN_C_SOURCE on.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-07-08 20:39:00	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, loewis, ronaldoussoren, orsenthil, r.david.murray, michael.foord, flox, l0nwlf
2010-07-08 20:38:59	belopolsky	link	issue7900 messages
2010-07-08 20:38:58	belopolsky	create