python-daemon: setgroups feature patch request

[Ben Finney]

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On 17-Dec-2014, Aleksey Morarash wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:12:33PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Is this substantially different from what ‘os.initgroups’ does
> 
> No, if you mean Python 2.7 and later. The os.initgroups() function
> is new in Python 2.7.

Drat, you're right. We will need to consider whether it's worth
maintaining a custom implementation, merely to support older Python
versions.

At the moment I'm thinking this will only be available in a future
backward-incompatible 1.6.x series where we drop support for Python
2.6 and earlier.

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