New submission from do1 <d...@yandex.ru>: os.chown() can not change uid/gid to valid but high number.
# chown 4294967294.4294967294 a # ls -l a -rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 Jul 9 05:22 a # python Python 2.7.3 (default, Jun 24 2012, 06:19:44) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.chown("a", 4294967294, 4294967294) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long ---------- components: None messages: 165053 nosy: do1 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.chown: OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15301> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com