From 6626c1f183e537e23cde9af84d4c7f9e235ef1b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:01 +0000
Subject: create_message():  When os.link() doesn't exist, make a copy of the
 msg instead.  Allows this test to finish on Windows again.

---
 Lib/test/test_mailbox.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py b/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
index 9858459..b9887ca 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ class MaildirTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self._msgfiles.append(tmpname)
         fp.write(DUMMY_MESSAGE)
         fp.close()
-        os.link(tmpname, newname)
+        if hasattr(os, "link"):
+            os.link(tmpname, newname)
+        else:
+            fp = open(newname, "w")
+            fp.write(DUMMY_MESSAGE)
+            fp.close()
         self._msgfiles.append(newname)
 
     def test_empty_maildir(self):
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