Ross Lagerwall added the comment: It seems like getgrouplist returns the information from the system database whereas getgroups (and consequently id -G) returns the supplementary groups for the calling process.
I'm not exactly sure how getgrouplist() can be effectively tested then. ---------- nosy: +rosslagerwall title: test_posix.test_getgrouplist fails on some systems - incorrectly comparing getgroups and getgrouplist results -> test_posix.test_getgrouplist fails on some systems - incorrectly comparing getgroups and getgrouplist results _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16661> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com