Bug #62881 [Com]: posix_getpwnam("") && posix_getgrnam("") didn't return false on Mac OSX 10.8

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62881&edit=1 ID: 62881 Comment by: reeze dot xia at gmail dot com Reported by: reeze dot xia at gmail dot com Summary: posix_getpwnam("") && posix_getgrnam("") didn't return false on Mac OSX 10.8 Status: Wont fix Type: Bug Package: POSIX related Operating System: Mac OSX 10.8 PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: OooK... by hacking /etc/passwd hmmm. $ useradd didn't allow that. so technically uid could be -1, etc heh. anyway, there always trade off, I prefer it get fixed. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 03:50:53] aharvey@php.net Yeah, I had to edit /etc/passwd directly to do it, but it's possible, and once created, the account works normally on Linux: http://i.imgur.com/PI3zt.png ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 03:45:25] reeze dot xia at gmail dot com Hi, aharvey how did you made it? by a tricky way?. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 03:43:45] laruence@php.net it's no need: 1. first it's a knew bug of apple, apple will fix that 2. as you said, you can create a group with empty string in ubuntu. we have no reason to introduce such a temporary fix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 03:18:07] aharvey@php.net To reiterate what I said on GitHub: I think we could put a workaround in just for those OS X versions behind an appropriate #if guard (blank user and group names are valid in at least some POSIX OSes, so we don't want to hardcode the behaviour for posix_getgrnam('')), but it's probably not worth the code clutter in the grand scheme of things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-22 03:02:37] laruence@php.net same comment copied from the pr: we don't fix bug doesn't belong to php Linux man page of posix_getpwnam doesn't specific the situation about empty string Posix functions are buggy in mac os. so, won't fix for this, leave it to apple . btw: after a quick google, seems you have file a bug to apple, then file another bug to ruby.. and the ruby guy told you the same thing I told. why you still think it should be fixed in php self? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62881 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62881&edit=1