[issue1747858] chown broken on 64bit

[Sean Reifschneider]

Sean Reifschneider added the comment:

It seems like the problem here is that chown is defined to take -1 for
the arguments, where the underlying platform may define chown taking
unsigned uid/gid.

I think in the short term we will need to apply a patch like one of the
ones included here, but in the long term maybe something like
"chown(path, uid = None, gid = None)"?  With "chown(path, gid = 69)". 
Does it make sense to use None instead of -1 in the long term?

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keywords: +64bit, patch
nosy: +jafo
type:  -> behavior

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