Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index b396f0a..515b0ae 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@
def ismount(path):
"""Test whether a path is a mount point"""
try:
- s1 = os.stat(path)
- s2 = os.stat(join(path, '..'))
+ s1 = os.lstat(path)
+ s2 = os.lstat(join(path, '..'))
except os.error:
return False # It doesn't exist -- so not a mount point :-)
dev1 = s1.st_dev
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 67af91e..167bedc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
+
- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
unicode characters.