From d6138c426ed83a0d6726b4a8f406b7a8722ac345 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:19:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] always allow -1 as a uid

---
 Modules/posixmodule.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index a06ebd10a3f..65ade9fb9fd 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -397,8 +397,6 @@ _Py_Uid_Converter(PyObject *obj, void *p)
                     goto OverflowUp;
                 return 0;
             }
-            if ((uid_t)uresult == (uid_t)-1)
-                goto OverflowUp;
         } else {
             if (result < 0)
                 goto OverflowDown;
@@ -451,8 +449,6 @@ _Py_Gid_Converter(PyObject *obj, void *p)
                     goto OverflowUp;
                 return 0;
             }
-            if ((gid_t)uresult == (gid_t)-1)
-                goto OverflowUp;
         } else {
             if (result < 0)
                 goto OverflowDown;