[issue7999] setregid does not work with -1 as argument

Ned Deily added the comment: Apparently there is a side effect on OS X 10.6 of setting to -1. See Issue8045. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7999] setregid does not work with -1 as argument

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: I reproduced this bug on OSX 10.6: >>> os.setregid(-1,-1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in OverflowError: group id too big Since -1 has special meaning as an argument to POSIX setregid(rgid, egid), """ If rgid is -1, the real gr