Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_commands.py b/Lib/test/test_commands.py
index 70cfb58..066b182 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_commands.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_commands.py
@@ -49,8 +49,12 @@
# drwxr-xr-x 15 Joe User My Group 4096 Aug 12 12:50 /
# Note that the first case above has a space in the group name
# while the second one has a space in both names.
+ # Special attributes supported:
+ # + = has ACLs
+ # @ = has Mac OS X extended attributes
+ # . = has a SELinux security context
pat = r'''d......... # It is a directory.
- \+? # It may have ACLs.
+ [.+@]? # It may have special attributes.
\s+\d+ # It has some number of links.
[^/]* # Skip user, group, size, and date.
/\. # and end with the name of the file.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fe4605f..f460127 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
+ or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
+
- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.