[Python-Dev] Python 2.5.1 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 29 09:53:07 CEST 2007

After some googling it seems to me that this could likely be a User Rights Assignment issue of a systems file not an open file stat one, hence the Access denied error message (winerror 5) that I got in WinXP, as opposed to the File not found windows error (winerror 2) which one might expect if the pagefile.sys did not exist.

Ah - I didn't check what the error number is. If you can get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, then most likely we need to check for ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND as well (as your original patch did) - it would be good if somebody confirmed that the modified test indeed passes/gets skipped when the pagefile is not on C:

And therefore if the point of the test is just to test stating an open file then the temporary file approach makes sense. If modifying a systems file with or without User Rights Assignment is a requirement then we may need a new test altogether.

The test should ideally verify that you can stat all open files in 2.5 that you could also stat in 2.4. If you get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when stat'ing c:\pagefile.sys in 2.5, I would hope that you get a similar error from 2.4. If 2.4 could stat c:\pagefile.sys and 2.5 gives ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, then the bug still isn't fixed.

Regards, Martin

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