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: NO, I don't mean that. PHP isn't always running on lastest OS. It just a conditional workaround for buggy api. Since there are not that much application running on OSX. I'm ok if you guys think we didn't fix that. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 04:57:57] larue...@php.net you think we should fix this, then after apple fixed their bug, we remove this fix then? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 04:10:58] reeze dot xia at gmail dot com 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 03:45:25] reeze dot xia at gmail dot com Hi, aharvey how did you made it? by a tricky way?. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62881 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62881&edit=1