Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I reproduced this bug on OSX 10.6: >>> os.setregid(-1,-1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: group id too big Since -1 has special meaning as an argument to POSIX setregid(rgid, egid), """ If rgid is -1, the real group ID shall not be changed; if egid is -1, the effective group ID shall not be changed. """ I think passing -1 to os. setregid() should be supported. Meanwhile the following work-around works for me on OSX, but may not work on other platforms: >>> os.setregid(2**32-1,2**32-1) ---------- nosy: +Alexander.Belopolsky _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7999> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
