Robin Roth added the comment:
Based on the review by SilentGhost I removed all refactoring-changes and only
left the one line needed for the fix.
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Added file:
http://bugs.python.org/file43140/minimal_fix_ismount_directory_not_readable.patch
Robin Roth added the comment:
Any progress on merging this?
The fix is simple, there is a test; anything else I can do to help?
Ansible integrated the patch posted here as a workaround of an issue this
caused. So there was some external review of the fix. See
https://github.com/ansible/ansible
Robin Roth added the comment:
any comments/updates on merging this?
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Robin Roth added the comment:
Antoine's suggestion does not work, because "dirname" does not cover enough
cases (for example trailing slash, possibly more).
As suggested by him I now use realpath (instead of abspath). I can't come up
with a symlink-situation that is broken with th
Robin Roth added the comment:
This bug is still present and annoying.
For me it appeared when running ismount on a nfs-mounted directory, when the
user who runs python has no read permission inside the directory. Therefore the
lstat on /mntdir/.. fails.
Attached a patch that fixes
