Message 59990 - Python tracker

Author	jafo
Recipients	jafo, loewis, nbecker, owsla
Date	2008-01-16.07:10:51
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It seems like the problem here is that chown is defined to take -1 for the arguments, where the underlying platform may define chown taking unsigned uid/gid. I think in the short term we will need to apply a patch like one of the ones included here, but in the long term maybe something like "chown(path, uid = None, gid = None)"? With "chown(path, gid = 69)". Does it make sense to use None instead of -1 in the long term?

It seems like the problem here is that chown is defined to take -1 for
the arguments, where the underlying platform may define chown taking
unsigned uid/gid.

I think in the short term we will need to apply a patch like one of the
ones included here, but in the long term maybe something like
"chown(path, uid = None, gid = None)"?  With "chown(path, gid = 69)". 
Does it make sense to use None instead of -1 in the long term?

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