[New-bugs-announce] [issue5705] os.getpwent returns unsigned 32bit value, os.setuid refuses it

[Gregory P. Smith]

New submission from Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>:

Running test_httpservers on a 64-bit build of Python 2.7 trunk on OS X
10.5:  (I added a print "nobody=", nobody)

test_authorization (__main__.CGIHTTPServerTestCase) ... nobody= 4294967294
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Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 55322)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/greg/sandbox/python/trunk/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py", line
251, in run_cgi
    os.setuid(nobody)
OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum

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assignee: gregory.p.smith
keywords: 64bit
messages: 85582
nosy: gregory.p.smith
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.getpwent returns unsigned 32bit value, os.setuid refuses it
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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