bpo-29248: Fix os.readlink() on Windows (GH-5577)
The PrintNameOffset field of the reparse data buffer
was treated as a number of characters instead of bytes.
(cherry picked from commit 3c34aad4e7a95913ec7db8e5e948a8fc69047bf7)
Co-authored-by: SSE4 <tomskside@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 02611d2..77e4a00 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -2165,6 +2165,21 @@
finally:
os.chdir(orig_dir)
+ @unittest.skipUnless(os.path.lexists(r'C:\Users\All Users')
+ and os.path.exists(r'C:\ProgramData'),
+ 'Test directories not found')
+ def test_29248(self):
+ # os.symlink() calls CreateSymbolicLink, which creates
+ # the reparse data buffer with the print name stored
+ # first, so the offset is always 0. CreateSymbolicLink
+ # stores the "PrintName" DOS path (e.g. "C:\") first,
+ # with an offset of 0, followed by the "SubstituteName"
+ # NT path (e.g. "\??\C:\"). The "All Users" link, on
+ # the other hand, seems to have been created manually
+ # with an inverted order.
+ target = os.readlink(r'C:\Users\All Users')
+ self.assertTrue(os.path.samefile(target, r'C:\ProgramData'))
+
@unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform == "win32", "Win32 specific tests")
class Win32JunctionTests(unittest.TestCase):