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bpo-40014: Fix os.getgrouplist() #19126

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Fix os.getgrouplist(): if getgrouplist() function fails because the
group list is too small, retry with a larger group list.

On failure, the glibc implementation of getgrouplist() sets ngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the
group list size.

https://bugs.python.org/issue40014

Fix os.getgrouplist(): if getgrouplist() function fails because the
group list is too small, retry with a larger group list.

On failure, the glibc implementation of getgrouplist() sets ngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the
group list size.
@vstinner vstinner merged commit f5c7cab into python:master Mar 24, 2020
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Thanks @vstinner for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.7, 3.8.
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miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Mar 24, 2020
Fix os.getgrouplist(): if getgrouplist() function fails because the
group list is too small, retry with a larger group list.

On failure, the glibc implementation of getgrouplist() sets ngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the
group list size.
(cherry picked from commit f5c7cab)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
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GH-19143 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.8 branch.

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request Mar 24, 2020
Fix os.getgrouplist(): if getgrouplist() function fails because the
group list is too small, retry with a larger group list.

On failure, the glibc implementation of getgrouplist() sets ngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the
group list size.
(cherry picked from commit f5c7cab)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
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GH-19144 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.7 branch.

miss-islington added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 24, 2020
Fix os.getgrouplist(): if getgrouplist() function fails because the
group list is too small, retry with a larger group list.

On failure, the glibc implementation of getgrouplist() sets ngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the
group list size.
(cherry picked from commit f5c7cab)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
miss-islington added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 24, 2020
Fix os.getgrouplist(): if getgrouplist() function fails because the
group list is too small, retry with a larger group list.

On failure, the glibc implementation of getgrouplist() sets ngroups
to the total number of groups. For other implementations, double the
group list size.
(cherry picked from commit f5c7cab)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
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