[perl #134195] [PATCH] setgroups() regression in perl 5.30

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:08:00 -0700, hv wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:10:01 -0700, jkeenan wrote:
> > Operation not permitted
> 
> You need to be root, or otherwise privileged.
> 
> As root, I can reproduce it here:
> # /opt/v5.28.1/bin/perl -wle '$) = "2 2"; print $!; print $)'
> 
> 2 2
> # /opt/v5.30.0/bin/perl -wle '$) = "2 2"; print $!; print $)'
> Invalid argument
> 2 0
> #
> 
> Of course that makes it difficult to spot bugs like this from the
> testsuite. :(

I wonder if it's worth splitting out the parsing into a non-API (but still exported) function that we can test in XS::APItest.

Tony



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• [perl #134195] [PATCH] setgroups() regression in perl 5.30 by Tony Cook via RT
• [perl #134195] [PATCH] setgroups() regression in perl 5.30 by Hugo van der Sanden via RT
• [perl #134195] [PATCH] setgroups() regression in perl 5.30 by James E Keenan via RT