Andreas Kupries <andre...@activestate.com> added the comment: I do not know if this is standard for hpux or not.
I can say that right now we have six different HPUX machines which behave in this manner, i.e. do not throw an error for the 'chown root foobar' command for an ordinary (non-root) user. Regarding the platform codes, here are the results. andre...@bertha:~/tmp/autotest> ./apy/bin/python2.5 ActivePython 2.5.4.3 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Jan 20 2009, 14:48:58) [C] on hp-ux11 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys, platform >>> sys.platform 'hp-ux11' >>> platform.system() 'HP-UX' >>> quit() The six machines I mentioned are bertha - HP-UX 11.00 (PA-RISC) bigsur03 - HP-UX 11.22 (Itanium) hpa180 - HP-UX 11.00 (PA-RISC) bigsur03 - HP-UX 11.22 (Itanium) hpl3000 - HP-UX 11.23 (PA-RISC) bigsur05 - HP-UX 11.32 (Itanium) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5113> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com