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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mhlib.py b/Lib/test/test_mhlib.py
index 862d301..b258e99 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mhlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mhlib.py
@@ -12,8 +12,16 @@ import os, StringIO
import sys
import mhlib
-if sys.platform.startswith("win") or sys.platform=="riscos" or sys.platform.startswith("atheos"):
- raise TestSkipped("test_mhlib skipped on %s -- "%sys.platform +
+if (sys.platform.startswith("win") or sys.platform=="riscos" or
+ sys.platform.startswith("atheos"):
+ # mhlib.updateline() renames a file to the name of a file that already
+ # exists. That causes a reasonable OS <wink> to complain in test_sequence
+ # here, like the "OSError: [Errno 17] File exists" raised on Windows.
+ # mhlib's listsubfolders() and listallfolders() do something with
+ # link counts, and that causes test_listfolders() here to get back
+ # an empty list from its call of listallfolders().
+ # The other tests here pass on Windows.
+ raise TestSkipped("test_mhlib skipped on %s -- " % sys.platform +
"too many Unix assumptions")
_mhroot = TESTFN+"_MH"