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Author vstinner
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, sjoerd, vstinner
Date 2012-11-24.23:53:23
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The value -1 is used is some functions like chown() (to only change the
user, only the group or none, to check if you are allowed or not). How do
you handle this value?
Le 24 nov. 2012 19:29, "Serhiy Storchaka" <report@bugs.python.org> a écrit :

>
> Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
>
> Here is a simplified version of patch from issue2005. Support of
> uid_t/gid_t larger than unsigned long dropped. Signed uid_t/gid_t support
> dropped. The converters moved to Objects/longobject.c. Some tests added.
>
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> components: +Extension Modules, Interpreter Core -Library (Lib)
> nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
> stage:  -> patch review
> versions: +Python 3.4
> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28096/posix_uid_gid_conv_3.patch
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