New submission from Xavier de Gaye: This is yet another idiosyncrasy of Android, the /sbin directory is in the $PATH of the adb shell used for running the tests on the emulator or on a device connected with usb to the build platform, and /sbin is readable and searchable only by root. For a plain user, the loop over exec_array[] in child_exec() at _posixsubprocess.c sets saved_errno to EACCES after failing to exec /sbin/some_non_existent_program.
The patch fixes these failing tests on Android API 24: test_dtrace test_shutil test_subprocess. ---------- components: Tests files: catch_PermissionError.patch keywords: patch messages: 280551 nosy: xdegaye priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: catch also PermissionError in tests when spawning a non existent program type: behavior versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45435/catch_PermissionError.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28662> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
