[Python-Dev] r84983 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/os.rst Lib/test/test_os.py Misc/NEWS Modules/posixmodule.c

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:38:44 +0200
"Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" <amauryfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/24 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> >
> > The getlogin test fails on many Unix buildbots, either with errno 2
> > (ENOENT) or 22 (EINVAL) or "OSError: unable to determine login name":
> 
> Do these buildbots run in a Windows service, i.e. with no user logged in?

I don't think any of our Unix buildbots runs in our Windows service :)

The diversity of errors we get is a bit disturbing: in the Linux man
pages, ENOENT is mentioned as a glibc extension (“There was no
corresponding entry in the utmp-file”)  but EINVAL is not mentioned at
all; also, returning NULL without setting errno is not a possibility in
the POSIX spec.

Regards

Antoine.