Issue #7333: The posix module gains an initgroups() function providing

access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
it.  Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
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Antoine Pitrou 2009-12-02 20:37:54 +00:00
parent f2bf0d2a51
commit 30b3b35cba
7 changed files with 69 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ process and user.
Availability: Unix.
.. function:: initgroups(username, gid)
Call the system initgroups() to initialize the group access list with all of
the groups of which the specified username is a member, plus the specified
group id. Availability: Unix.
.. versionadded:: 2.7
.. function:: getlogin()
Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the