Jim DeLaHunt added the comment: The Mac OS 10.10 man page for initgroups(3) says:
"Processes should not use the group ID numbers from getgroups(2) to determine a user's group membership. The list obtained from getgroups() may only be a partial list of a user's group membership. Membership checks should use the mbr_gid_to_uuid(3), mbr_uid_to_uuid(3), and mbr_check_membership(3) functions." (http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/initgroups/ -- not official Apple page, but it matches what I see in my OS.) When the man page says, "The list obtained from getgroups() may only be a partial list of a user's group membership.", and the list from `id -G` is presumably a complete list, should we understand that Apple is saying their getgroups(2) implementation isn't POSIX-compliant? If so, maybe we should skip test_getgroups on Mac OS X systems? Or, should we consider rewriting os_getgroups_impl() to use a Mac-specific implementation on Mac OS X? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29562> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
