bug in os.getgroups?

[Jason R. Mastaler]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> writes:

> This is liely to be because /tmp is "sticky":

/tmp was a bad choice for my example.  The problem is the same in a
non-sticky directory such as /home.

# python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Apr 22 2002, 10:19:01) 
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.setgid(31)
>>> os.setuid(667)
>>> os.getgroups()
[31, 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 31]
>>> os.unlink('/home/junk')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/junk'
>>> 

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