[issue3002] shutil.copyfile blocks indefinitely on named pipes

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Here is a patch, introducing a new exception named SpecialFileError
which is raised when trying to copy a named pipe. Other kinds of special
file aren't checked for, but they could it we thought it's sensible to
do so.

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keywords: +patch
message_count: 7.0 -> 8.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13269/issue3002.patch

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