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Author	vstinner
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, sjoerd, vstinner
Date	2009年03月25日.00:34:47
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Message-id	<1237941293.24.0.742587119029.issue4591@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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pitrou> The documentation for PyArg_ParseTuple states that the pitrou> "I" code doesn't do any overflow checking. Does it mean pitrou> the input parameters can be silently truncated? I'm sorry, but you're right :-) My patch was wrong. New patch introduces functions parse_uid() and parse_gid() doing the right thing to get an unsigned uid and gid. I reused the parsing code from posix_setgroups().

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pitrou> The documentation for PyArg_ParseTuple states that the 
pitrou> "I" code doesn't do any overflow checking. Does it mean 
pitrou> the input parameters can be silently truncated?
I'm sorry, but you're right :-) My patch was wrong. New patch 
introduces functions parse_uid() and parse_gid() doing the right thing 
to get an unsigned uid and gid. I reused the parsing code from 
posix_setgroups().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009年03月25日 00:34:53	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, sjoerd, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou
2009年03月25日 00:34:53	vstinner	set	messageid: <1237941293.24.0.742587119029.issue4591@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009年03月25日 00:34:51	vstinner	link	issue4591 messages
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