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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-01-24 07:59:28 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-01-24 07:59:28 (GMT)
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Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
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diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 673877a..0afab3c 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -5330,7 +5330,6 @@ win_symlink(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
PyObject *src, *dest;
int target_is_directory = 0;
DWORD res;
- WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA src_info;
if (!check_CreateSymbolicLinkW())
{
@@ -5351,16 +5350,6 @@ win_symlink(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
return NULL;
}
- /* if src is a directory, ensure target_is_directory==1 */
- if(
- GetFileAttributesExW(
- PyUnicode_AsUnicode(src), GetFileExInfoStandard, &src_info
- ))
- {
- target_is_directory = target_is_directory ||
- (src_info.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY);
- }
-
Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
res = Py_CreateSymbolicLinkW(
PyUnicode_AsUnicode(dest),