From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:40:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't die when getuid() or getpid() aren't defined.
X-Git-Tag: v1.4b3~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c8cf888eba5bd54f103453a53e1b1ed7eda9331;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Don't die when getuid() or getpid() aren't defined.
---

diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
index da33a7777b97..baf9379f537a 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -106,8 +106,14 @@ def choose_boundary():
 		import socket
 		import os
 		hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
-		uid = `os.getuid()`
-		pid = `os.getpid()`
+		try:
+		    uid = `os.getuid()`
+		except:
+		    uid = '1'
+		try:
+		    pid = `os.getpid()`
+		except:
+		    pid = '1'
 		seed = `rand.rand()`
 		_prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
 	timestamp = `int(time.time())`