[issue18945] Name collision handling in tempfile is not covered by tests

[Eli Bendersky]

Eli Bendersky added the comment:

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:28 AM, R. David Murray <report at bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> R. David Murray added the comment:
>
> We don't generally backport tests unless they are part of a bug fix.  It's
> not a blanket prohibition, but normally the risk of false positives in a
> maintenance release on platforms not covered by our buildbots outweighs the
> benefits of adding the tests.
>

These tests are very related to an actual bug-fix (
http://bugs.python.org/issue18849). Moreover, they cover a previously
uncovered feature which resulted in very intermittent heisen-bugs where
temp file creation was occasionally failing on some platforms. IMHO having
this covered is worth the small maintenance burden of the tests - who
knows, it may uncover real problems. What do you think?

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