[issue3580] failures in test_os
Raghuram Devarakonda
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Aug 18 16:36:24 CEST 2008
Raghuram Devarakonda <draghuram at gmail.com> added the comment:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Since the purpose of the test is, allegedly, to "Verify that an open
> file can be stat'ed", it may be simpler to create and open a file
> ourselves (test_support.TESTFN being an obvious candidate :-)), and
No. Any open file does not do. There has been a discussion on
python-dev some time back about replacing the use of pagefile.sys with
a temporarily created open file. But the problem that spawned this
test case does not occur with just any open file.
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