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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_posix.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_posix.py | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py index 1fb3c48..179864a 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ except ImportError: import time import os +import pwd import unittest import warnings warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', '.* potential security risk .*', @@ -141,6 +142,33 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase): if hasattr(posix, 'stat'): self.assert_(posix.stat(test_support.TESTFN)) + if hasattr(posix, 'chown'): + def test_chown(self): + # raise an OSError if the file does not exist + os.unlink(test_support.TESTFN) + self.assertRaises(OSError, posix.chown, test_support.TESTFN, -1, -1) + + # re-create the file + open(test_support.TESTFN, 'w').close() + if os.getuid() == 0: + try: + # Many linux distros have a nfsnobody user as MAX_UID-2 + # that makes a good test case for signedness issues. + # http://bugs.python.org/issue1747858 + # This part of the test only runs when run as root. + # Only scary people run their tests as root. + ent = pwd.getpwnam('nfsnobody') + posix.chown(test_support.TESTFN, ent.pw_uid, ent.pw_gid) + except KeyError: + pass + else: + # non-root cannot chown to root, raises OSError + self.assertRaises(OSError, posix.chown, + test_support.TESTFN, 0, 0) + + # test a successful chown call + posix.chown(test_support.TESTFN, os.getuid(), os.getgid()) + def test_chdir(self): if hasattr(posix, 'chdir'): posix.chdir(os.curdir) |