Special support for pickling os.stat and os.stat_vfs results portably

(the types come from different modules on different platforms).

Added tests for pickling these types.

May be a bugfix candidate.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 42812aa..f411f1f 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -602,3 +602,23 @@ if _exists("fork"):
             stdout, stdin = popen2.popen4(cmd, bufsize)
             return stdin, stdout
         __all__.append("popen4")
+
+import copy_reg as _copy_reg
+
+def _make_stat_result(tup, dict):
+    return stat_result(tup, dict)
+
+def _pickle_stat_result(sr):
+    (type, args) = sr.__reduce__()
+    return (_make_stat_result, args)
+
+_copy_reg.pickle(stat_result, _pickle_stat_result,_make_stat_result)
+
+def _make_statvfs_result(tup, dict):
+    return statvfs_result(tup, dict)
+
+def _pickle_statvfs_result(sr):
+    (type, args) = sr.__reduce__()
+    return (_make_statvfs_result, args)
+
+_copy_reg.pickle(statvfs_result, _pickle_statvfs_result,_make_statvfs_result)