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author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-05-01 20:55:35 (GMT) |
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committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-05-01 20:55:35 (GMT) |
commit | 1fc0231a22f00afffff890e0cf0078dd7d0cf582 (patch) | |
tree | cfce54597979871a67d1948456b78a293b098ad3 /Lib/shutil.py | |
parent | 1d499265e08acac748b8158e90cf549194bac97c (diff) | |
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Issue #3002: `shutil.copyfile()` and `shutil.copytree()` now raise an
error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/shutil.py')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/shutil.py | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py index af96546..c46ec47 100644 --- a/Lib/shutil.py +++ b/Lib/shutil.py @@ -11,11 +11,15 @@ from os.path import abspath import fnmatch __all__ = ["copyfileobj","copyfile","copymode","copystat","copy","copy2", - "copytree","move","rmtree","Error"] + "copytree","move","rmtree","Error", "SpecialFileError"] class Error(EnvironmentError): pass +class SpecialFileError(EnvironmentError): + """Raised when trying to do a kind of operation (e.g. copying) which is + not supported on a special file (e.g. a named pipe)""" + try: WindowsError except NameError: @@ -48,6 +52,15 @@ def copyfile(src, dst): fsrc = None fdst = None + for fn in [src, dst]: + try: + st = os.stat(fn) + except OSError: + # File most likely does not exist + pass + # XXX What about other special files? (sockets, devices...) + if stat.S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode): + raise SpecialFileError("`%s` is a named pipe" % fn) try: fsrc = open(src, 'rb') fdst = open(dst, 'wb') @@ -157,14 +170,14 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None): elif os.path.isdir(srcname): copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore) else: + # Will raise a SpecialFileError for unsupported file types copy2(srcname, dstname) - # XXX What about devices, sockets etc.? - except (IOError, os.error), why: - errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why))) # catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can # continue with other files except Error, err: errors.extend(err.args[0]) + except EnvironmentError, why: + errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why))) try: copystat(src, dst) except OSError, why: |