From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:08:52 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.4rc1~151
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=028915e6ea331a90edc263e7894dc02785048449;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
deployment target prior to 10.6.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index b936dda44bc4..06ad5c876332 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -447,6 +447,13 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase):
         if ret != None or not groups:
             raise unittest.SkipTest("need working 'id -G'")
 
+        # Issues 16698: OS X ABIs prior to 10.6 have limits on getgroups()
+        if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+            import sysconfig
+            dt = sysconfig.get_config_var('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') or '10.0'
+            if float(dt) < 10.6:
+                raise unittest.SkipTest("getgroups(2) is broken prior to 10.6")
+
         # 'id -G' and 'os.getgroups()' should return the same
         # groups, ignoring order and duplicates.
         # #10822 - it is implementation defined whether posix.getgroups()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d23ab200a023..382cd7fd9603 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -908,6 +908,9 @@ Tests
 - Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
   a test failure in test_ssl.
 
+- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
+  deployment target prior to 10.6.
+
 Build
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