#11490: EACCES can also mean command not found
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index ce3e0c2..d7db802 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -554,7 +554,8 @@
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
# Windows raises IOError
except (IOError, OSError) as err:
- if err.errno != errno.ENOENT: # ignore "no such file"
+ # ignore errors that indicate the command was not found
+ if err.errno not in (errno.ENOENT, errno.EACCES):
raise
def test_issue8780(self):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index df2aa4b..2b09978 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
+ false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
+
- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
by Ross Lagerwall.