bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True)… (#806)
when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
(cherry picked from commit af7b9ec5c855366feef4c67dc492d64b3baf84ca)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index 88a93e5..3ff9726 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -1776,6 +1776,11 @@
self.assertTrue(p.exists())
self.assertEqual(p.stat().st_ctime, st_ctime_first)
+ def test_mkdir_exist_ok_root(self):
+ # Issue #25803: A drive root could raise PermissionError on Windows
+ self.cls('/').resolve().mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+ self.cls('/').resolve().mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
@only_nt # XXX: not sure how to test this on POSIX
def test_mkdir_with_unknown_drive(self):
for d in 'ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA':