[Python-Dev] Strange umask(?)/st_mode issue (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at vorpus.org
Fri Mar 29 20:31:18 EDT 2019

That does sound strange. How easily can you reproduce it? That majorly effects how I would try to debug something like this...

If you're able to get an strace of a failed run then that would probably tell us a lot.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 16:28 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

Hi

I'm trying to track down the cause of the failed Linux tests on this build (it's also been happening on random PR builds for the last day or two, but this is the first I've seen it happen on already merged code): https://dev.azure.com/Python/cpython/build/results?buildId=40189 One of the failed tests is this one from testtarfile.py (and I think this is representative of the others): def testfilemode(self): # Test for issue #8464: Create files with correct # permissions. if os.path.exists(tmpname): support.unlink(tmpname) originalumask = os.umask(0o022) try: tar = tarfile.open(tmpname, self.mode) tar.close() mode = os.stat(tmpname).stmode & 0o777 self.assertEqual(mode, 0o644, "wrong file permissions") finally: os.umask(originalumask) It's failing because the mode of the new TAR file is 0o666 rather than 0o644. I'd guess that this means the umask() call is not having effect? But honestly this is beyond me - I don't have any idea what would cause Python to ignore that, and I don't see anything in the commit history that could be at fault. I'm hoping someone can tell me that it's definitely a platform configuration issue or it's definitely interference between two of our tests (which run in random order, which would explain the intermittent nature of this, but I haven't spotted any tests that seem likely either). To see the other failed PR builds, the full list is at https://dev.azure.com/Python/cpython/build?definitionId=9 and most of the ones from today have failed because of whatever is causing it. Any help? Thanks, Steve

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