[Python-Dev] please take a look at buildbot result [was: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)]

[R. David Murray]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:27:44 -0700, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> Well, test_grp test is failing because it assumes that group IDs are
> unique, which is not guaranteed by getgrent().  And apparently not true
> at PARC.
> 
> test_posix fails on some group-related thing, too: the use of
> initgroups(), which is supposed to fail, succeeds.
> 
> test_pwd fails because the fake uid chosen for one test is a real UID
> for a PARC user.
> 
> So these are really problems with the test being based on an
> insufficiently general model of the real world.

Could you file bugs for these, please?  The first and last others should
be able to replicate easily; the middle one will probably require your
help on the machine in question to debug.

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R. David Murray                                      www.bitdance.com