New submission from Xavier de Gaye:
List of the tests that fail with PermissionError when run as a non-root user on
an Android emulator (API 24) and fixed by this patch:
test_posix test_shutil test_stat test_genericpath test_ntpath
test_posixpath test_macpath test_eintr test_pathlib
Android uses SELinux mandatory access control (MAC), see:
https://source.android.com/security/selinux/
Android commit message that does not grant hard link capabilities by default:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/85ce2c7
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assignee: xdegaye
components: Tests
files: android_not_root.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 281329
nosy: xdegaye
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: access to mkfifo, mknod and hard links is controled by SELinux MAC on
Android
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45577/android_not_root.patch
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