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Author ned.deily
Recipients benjamin.peterson, ned.deily, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2013-03-23.21:01:39
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Message-id <1364072499.64.0.293858241957.issue17531@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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That fixes the test for nobody (-2). Now the next part of the test fails more seriously for nogroup (-1).  Simplifying:

2.7.3
$ arch -i386 /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c 'import grp; g=grp.getgrnam("nogroup").gr_gid; print(grp.getgrgid(g),type(g))'
(grp.struct_group(gr_name='nogroup', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=-1, gr_mem=[]), <type 'int'>)
$ arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c 'import grp; g=grp.getgrnam("nogroup").gr_gid; print(grp.getgrgid(g),type(g))'
(grp.struct_group(gr_name='nogroup', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=4294967295, gr_mem=[]), <type 'int'>)

2.7.4rc1:
$ arch -i386 /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c 'import grp; g=grp.getgrnam("nogroup").gr_gid; print(grp.getgrgid(g),type(g))'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: group id is greater than maximum
$ arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c 'import grp; g=grp.getgrnam("nogroup").gr_gid; print(grp.getgrgid(g),type(g))'
(grp.struct_group(gr_name='nogroup', gr_passwd='*', gr_gid=4294967295, gr_mem=[]), <type 'int'>)
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2013-03-23 21:01:39ned.deilysetrecipients: + ned.deily, benjamin.peterson, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka
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