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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/os.rst14
-rw-r--r--Lib/os.py30
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_os.py7
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
4 files changed, 20 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 72693f1..d7b9829 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -1563,11 +1563,8 @@ features:
The default *mode* is ``0o777`` (octal). On some systems, *mode* is
ignored. Where it is used, the current umask value is first masked out.
- If *exist_ok* is ``False`` (the default), an :exc:`OSError` is raised if
- the target directory already exists. If *exist_ok* is ``True`` an
- :exc:`OSError` is still raised if the umask-masked *mode* is different from
- the existing mode, on systems where the mode is used. :exc:`OSError` will
- also be raised if the directory creation fails.
+ If *exist_ok* is ``False`` (the default), an :exc:`OSError` is raised if the
+ target directory already exists.
.. note::
@@ -1579,6 +1576,13 @@ features:
.. versionadded:: 3.2
The *exist_ok* parameter.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3.6
+
+ Before Python 3.3.6, if *exist_ok* was ``True`` and the directory existed,
+ :func:`makedirs` would still raise an error if *mode* did not match the
+ mode of the existing directory. Since this behavior was impossible to
+ implement safely, it was removed in Python 3.3.6. See :issue:`21082`.
+
.. function:: mkfifo(path, mode=0o666, *, dir_fd=None)
diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 87689cc..b42ccba 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -230,23 +230,16 @@ SEEK_SET = 0
SEEK_CUR = 1
SEEK_END = 2
-
-def _get_masked_mode(mode):
- mask = umask(0)
- umask(mask)
- return mode & ~mask
-
# Super directory utilities.
# (Inspired by Eric Raymond; the doc strings are mostly his)
def makedirs(name, mode=0o777, exist_ok=False):
"""makedirs(path [, mode=0o777][, exist_ok=False])
- Super-mkdir; create a leaf directory and all intermediate ones.
- Works like mkdir, except that any intermediate path segment (not
- just the rightmost) will be created if it does not exist. If the
- target directory with the same mode as we specified already exists,
- raises an OSError if exist_ok is False, otherwise no exception is
+ Super-mkdir; create a leaf directory and all intermediate ones. Works like
+ mkdir, except that any intermediate path segment (not just the rightmost)
+ will be created if it does not exist. If the target directory already
+ exists, raise an OSError if exist_ok is False. Otherwise no exception is
raised. This is recursive.
"""
@@ -268,20 +261,7 @@ def makedirs(name, mode=0o777, exist_ok=False):
try:
mkdir(name, mode)
except OSError as e:
- dir_exists = path.isdir(name)
- expected_mode = _get_masked_mode(mode)
- if dir_exists:
- # S_ISGID is automatically copied by the OS from parent to child
- # directories on mkdir. Don't consider it being set to be a mode
- # mismatch as mkdir does not unset it when not specified in mode.
- actual_mode = st.S_IMODE(lstat(name).st_mode) & ~st.S_ISGID
- else:
- actual_mode = -1
- if not (e.errno == errno.EEXIST and exist_ok and dir_exists and
- actual_mode == expected_mode):
- if dir_exists and actual_mode != expected_mode:
- e.strerror += ' (mode %o != expected mode %o)' % (
- actual_mode, expected_mode)
+ if not exist_ok or e.errno != errno.EEXIST or not path.isdir(name):
raise
def removedirs(name):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index d70a0ae..56309bf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ class MakedirTests(unittest.TestCase):
os.makedirs(path, mode)
self.assertRaises(OSError, os.makedirs, path, mode)
self.assertRaises(OSError, os.makedirs, path, mode, exist_ok=False)
- self.assertRaises(OSError, os.makedirs, path, 0o776, exist_ok=True)
+ os.makedirs(path, 0o776, exist_ok=True)
os.makedirs(path, mode=mode, exist_ok=True)
os.umask(old_mask)
@@ -898,9 +898,8 @@ class MakedirTests(unittest.TestCase):
os.makedirs(path, mode, exist_ok=True)
# remove the bit.
os.chmod(path, stat.S_IMODE(os.lstat(path).st_mode) & ~S_ISGID)
- with self.assertRaises(OSError):
- # Should fail when the bit is not already set when demanded.
- os.makedirs(path, mode | S_ISGID, exist_ok=True)
+ # May work even when the bit is not already set when demanded.
+ os.makedirs(path, mode | S_ISGID, exist_ok=True)
finally:
os.umask(old_mask)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 187d4b2..cd91546 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Library
- Issue #20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.
+- Issue #21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this
+ changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.
+
- Issue #20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError.
Patch by Claudiu Popa.