Neal Becker wrote:
again with his notorious gmane.comp.python.general group that doesn't work for any decent news-reader..... > Mahmoud Abdelkader wrote: > >> Why don't you write a python extension module? This is a perfect >> opportunity for that. >> > I think having a module just for one system call is a bit silly. Why not > add to os module? While I do agree that it's an omission, it is easy enough to get it yourself using ctypes: from ctypes import * from ctypes.util import find_library clib = CDLL(find_library("c")) # this might be different on 64bit __uid_t = c_uint _setresuid = clib.setresuid _setresuid.argtypes = [__uid_t, __uid_t, __uid_t] _setresuid.restype = c_int def setresuid(ruid, euid, suid): return _setresuid(__uid_t(ruid), __uid_t(euid), __uid_t(suid)) print setresuid(1000, 1000, 1000) # returns 0 for me print setresuid(1001, 1001, 1001) # fails. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list