Fix #9333. The symlink function is always available now, raising OSError
when the user doesn't hold the symbolic link privilege rather than hiding it.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 9d84464..ff02c69 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -322,8 +322,7 @@
@unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, "link"),
"Missing hardlink implementation")
- @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, "symlink"),
- "Missing symlink implementation")
+ @support.skip_unless_symlink
def test_extract_hardlink(self):
# Test hardlink extraction (e.g. bug #857297).
tar = tarfile.open(tarname, errorlevel=1, encoding="iso8859-1")
@@ -841,8 +840,7 @@
os.remove(target)
os.remove(link)
- @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, "symlink"),
- "Missing symlink implementation")
+ @support.skip_unless_symlink
def test_symlink_size(self):
path = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "symlink")
os.symlink("link_target", path)