Patch #1168594: set sizes of non-regular files to zero. Fixes #1167128.
Will backport to 2.4.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index cc5e505..66409cd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -230,6 +230,40 @@
else:
self.dst.addfile(tarinfo, f)
+class WriteSize0Test(BaseTest):
+ mode = 'w'
+
+ def setUp(self):
+ self.tmpdir = dirname()
+ self.dstname = tmpname()
+ self.dst = tarfile.open(self.dstname, "w")
+
+ def tearDown(self):
+ self.dst.close()
+
+ def test_file(self):
+ path = os.path.join(self.tmpdir, "file")
+ file(path, "w")
+ tarinfo = self.dst.gettarinfo(path)
+ self.assertEqual(tarinfo.size, 0)
+ file(path, "w").write("aaa")
+ tarinfo = self.dst.gettarinfo(path)
+ self.assertEqual(tarinfo.size, 3)
+
+ def test_directory(self):
+ path = os.path.join(self.tmpdir, "directory")
+ os.mkdir(path)
+ tarinfo = self.dst.gettarinfo(path)
+ self.assertEqual(tarinfo.size, 0)
+
+ def test_symlink(self):
+ if hasattr(os, "symlink"):
+ path = os.path.join(self.tmpdir, "symlink")
+ os.symlink("link_target", path)
+ tarinfo = self.dst.gettarinfo(path)
+ self.assertEqual(tarinfo.size, 0)
+
+
class WriteStreamTest(WriteTest):
sep = '|'
@@ -399,6 +433,7 @@
ReadAsteriskTest,
ReadStreamAsteriskTest,
WriteTest,
+ WriteSize0Test,
WriteStreamTest,
WriteGNULongTest,
]