[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

STINNER Victor added the comment: > clearly Jeffrey's PR fixes a real and now reproducible problem so I'm > declaring victory and have closed this issue now. Thanks everyone! Well done Jeffrey Kintscher! The test was failing randomly for years, I recall many bugs and many people complaining

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

Ned Deily added the comment: This issue has roamed quite a bit so it is a little bit difficult to tell what problem(s) have been seen here. But, clearly Jeffrey's PR fixes a real and now reproducible problem so I'm declaring victory and have closed this issue now. Thanks everyonw! I am go

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

Ned Deily added the comment: Merged for release in 3.8.0b2 and 3.7.4. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset c80183e6ca8c0ce834fc6444a71c7f31a3eb05b7 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-35070: test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if too many groups (GH-13071) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c80183e6ca8c0ce834fc6444a71c7f31a3eb05b7 --

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset b4c8ef7c67712c6639ee896bf7cb8ca1c204946d by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-35070: test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if too many groups (GH-13071) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4c8ef7c67712c6639ee896bf7cb8ca1c204946d --

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +13905 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14043 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +13904 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14042 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

Ned Deily added the comment: New changeset 8725c83ed5ca8959195ad8326db99d564a921749 by Ned Deily (Jeffrey Kintscher) in branch 'master': bpo-35070: test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if too many groups (GH-13071) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8725c83ed5ca8959195ad8326db99d564a9217

[issue35070] test_getgrouplist may fail on macOS if user in too many groups

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the analysis and the PR! It turns out the problem is not new to 10.14; as you discovered, it's simply a matter of how may groups a particular user is in and, with all the system-generated groups, that number may vary from release to release and from u