Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
It turns out that uid_t (and gid_t) actually *is* an unsigned 32-bit
integer type on OS X 10.5, so perhaps the pw_uid and pw_gid values are
correct. So to rephrase: one or both of the following facts might be
considered bugs:
(1) On a single machine, the value of pwd.getpwnam('nobody') gives
different results for 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Python (pw_uid is -2 on
32-bit, 2**32-2 on 64-bit).
(2) On a 64-bit OS X build, pwd.getpwnam can produce uids and gids >=
2**31, but os.setuid and friends don't accept values larger than 2**31-1.
There's an inconsistency between pwdmodule.c and posixmodule.c: pwdmodule
casts uids to C longs before returning them, while the posixmodule.c
functions parse an input uid/gid using the "i" format in PyArg_Parse*.
It's the latter problem that's causing test_httpservers to fail on 64-bit
OS X.
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