Ignore .nfs* files in distutils (#7719).
These files are created by some NFS clients a file is edited and removed
concurrently (see added link in doc for more info). If such a file is
removed between distutils calls listdir and copy, it will get confused.
Other special files are ignored in sdist (namely VCS directories), but
this has to be filtered out earlier.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index e1adbe7..fed0553 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@
Brian Quinlan
Anders Qvist
Burton Radons
+Jeff Ramnani
Brodie Rao
Antti Rasinen
Sridhar Ratnakumar
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 94da277..063a6db 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
methods.
+- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
+ on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
+
- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.