Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62881&edit=1

 ID:                 62881
 Comment by:         reeze dot xia at gmail dot com
 Reported by:        reeze dot xia at gmail dot com
 Summary:            posix_getpwnam("") && posix_getgrnam("") didn't
                     return false on Mac OSX 10.8
 Status:             Wont fix
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            POSIX related
 Operating System:   Mac OSX 10.8
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

OooK... by hacking /etc/passwd  hmmm. $ useradd didn't allow that.

so technically uid could be -1, etc heh.

anyway, there always trade off, I prefer it get fixed.


Previous Comments:
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[2012-08-22 03:50:53] ahar...@php.net

Yeah, I had to edit /etc/passwd directly to do it, but it's possible, and once 
created, the account works normally on Linux: http://i.imgur.com/PI3zt.png

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[2012-08-22 03:45:25] reeze dot xia at gmail dot com

Hi, aharvey
  how did you made it? by a tricky way?. :)

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[2012-08-22 03:43:45] larue...@php.net

it's no need:

1. first it's a knew bug of apple, apple will fix that

2. as you said, you can create a group with empty string in ubuntu.

we have no reason to introduce such a temporary fix

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[2012-08-22 03:18:07] ahar...@php.net

To reiterate what I said on GitHub: I think we could put a workaround in just 
for those OS X versions behind an appropriate #if guard (blank user and group 
names are valid in at least some POSIX OSes, so we don't want to hardcode the 
behaviour for posix_getgrnam('')), but it's probably not worth the code clutter 
in the grand scheme of things.

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[2012-08-22 03:02:37] larue...@php.net

same comment copied from the pr:

we don't fix bug doesn't belong to php
Linux man page of posix_getpwnam doesn't specific the situation about empty 
string
Posix functions are buggy in mac os. so, won't fix for this, leave it to apple .
btw:

after a quick google, seems you have file a bug to apple, then file another bug 
to ruby..

and the ruby guy told you the same thing I told.

why you still think it should be fixed in php self?

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