From 467298cb4251a6c09146527f1ba3c5821ada268d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:35:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Call setreuid and setregid in a subprocess to avoid altering the test runner's process state. Should fix issue8045. --- Lib/test/test_os.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py index 44cc4cb7134..3dd7f904644 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_os.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py @@ -642,7 +642,14 @@ if sys.platform != 'win32': self.assertRaises(os.error, os.setreuid, 0, 0) self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setreuid, 1<<32, 0) self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setreuid, 0, 1<<32) - os.setreuid(-1, -1) # Does nothing, but it needs to accept -1 + + def test_setreuid_neg1(self): + # Needs to accept -1. We run this in a subprocess to avoid + # altering the test runner's process state (issue8045). + import subprocess + subprocess.check_call([ + sys.executable, '-c', + 'import os,sys;os.setreuid(-1,-1);sys.exit(0)']) if hasattr(os, 'setregid'): def test_setregid(self): @@ -650,7 +657,14 @@ if sys.platform != 'win32': self.assertRaises(os.error, os.setregid, 0, 0) self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setregid, 1<<32, 0) self.assertRaises(OverflowError, os.setregid, 0, 1<<32) - os.setregid(-1, -1) # Does nothing, but it needs to accept -1 + + def test_setregid_neg1(self): + # Needs to accept -1. We run this in a subprocess to avoid + # altering the test runner's process state (issue8045). + import subprocess + subprocess.check_call([ + sys.executable, '-c', + 'import os,sys;os.setregid(-1,-1);sys.exit(0)']) else: class PosixUidGidTests(unittest.TestCase): pass