uid_t, gid_t issue in python tests?

[John Marshall]

Hi,

While doing the python tests under AIX,
I noticed that although AIX uses:
typedef uint_t uid_t;
typedef uint_t gid_t;

the actual python code expects:
int uid;
int gid;

For example, in the grpmodule.c:
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static PyObject *
grp_getgrgid(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
int gid;
struct group *p;
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i:getgrgid", &gid))
return NULL;
if ((p = getgrgid(gid)) == NULL) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_KeyError, "getgrgid(): gid not found");
return NULL;
}
return mkgrent(p);
}
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Shouldn't this code expect unsigned int, one way
or another (as unsigned int, uid_t, gid_t, ...)?

Thanks,
John

[Martin v. Löwis]

John Marshall wrote:

Shouldn't this code expect unsigned int, one way
or another (as unsigned int, uid_t, gid_t, ...)?

Perhaps. However, this would break on systems where
getgrgid is defined to take an int as its argument.

Regards,
Martin