Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> added the comment:

David,

Can you unset "normal" priority from this issue.  Regardless of whether it is a 
crash or not a crash, this is a regression for which there is no user 
work-around.  It looks like "normal" priority makes the issue disappear from 
the top of "Show Open" search and this is inconvenient while the issue is being 
worked on.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ronald Oussoren <rep...@bugs.python.org> 
wrote:
..
>        setgid(3);
>        setuid(502);
>        execl("/usr/bin/id", "/usr/bin/id", NULL);
..
> On OSX it prints the group information that's associated with the 502 > 
> account in the user database, and only prints the expected values when > I 
> call setuid(600), which is a UID that isn't in use on my system.
>

This looks like a bug (surprise!) in OSX' /usr/bin/id.  With a freshly compiled 
coreutils-8.4, your program behaves as you expect when using /usr/local/bin/id.
  

> This is both with and without setting _DARWIN_C_SOURCE and even when
> compiling with deployment target 10.4 and using the 10.4 SDK.

This is to be expected because your program only calls setgroups which is 
unaffected by _DARWIN_C_SOURCE settings.  Note that it will also fail 
regardless of compilation mode if you change 16 to 17.

> I'm therefore in favor of keeping _DARWIN_C_SOURCE and adding the
> workaround for a larger number of groups as implemented in
> os-getgroups.patch.

I don't understand the "therefore" part.  As you say, _DARWIN_C_SOURCE setting 
has no effect on your program, so what is the advantage of keeping it is 
posixmodule.c?

As I explained, with _DARWIN_C_SOURCE set,

"""
[OSX getgroups] is not getgroups at all and instead is effectively a call to 
getgrouplist(getpwuid(..)->pw_name, ..).  In other words, it reads the system 
database instead of the per-process list.
"""

Why do you think this is what users expect to get when calling 
posix.getgroups()?


> This means that using

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