[issue6873] posix_lchown: possible overflow of uid, gid

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

The patch is incorrect. Why do you think there is an overflow? There is 
none in the call to ParseTuple: the i argument parser expects a signed 
int*; passing a long* will break on systems where 
sizeof(int)!=sizeof(long) (such as typical 64-bit Unix).

In addition, the *actual* overflow in the current code (casting to uid_t) 
is not handled in the patch.

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nosy: +loewis

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