Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Ronald Oussoren <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Note that explicitly setting the effective uid and gid of processes is 
> somewhat frowned upon by Apple, they'd prefer if all daemon processes where 
> started using launchd and used launchd to start them using the correct 
> permissions. A tool like ssh should use initgroup to initialize the effective 
> group list, and that will do the right thing (which appearently is the odd 
> behaviour I saw in new Terminal sessions).

IIRC, the tests for initgroup in one of my patches also break with
_DARWIN_C_SOURCE on.

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