Patch by Brian Hooper, somewhat augmented by GvR, to strip a trailing
backslash from the pathname argument to stat() on Windows -- while on
Unix, stat("/bin/") succeeds and does the same thing as stat("/bin"),
on Windows, stat("\\windows\\") fails while stat("\\windows") succeeds.
This modified version of the patch recognizes both / and \.
(This is odd behavior of the MS C library, since
os.listdir("\\windows\\") succeeds!)
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index c948b95..e269106 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -549,8 +549,36 @@
struct stat st;
char *path;
int res;
+
+#ifdef MS_WIN32
+ int pathlen;
+ char pathcopy[MAX_PATH];
+#endif /* MS_WIN32 */
+
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, format, &path))
return NULL;
+
+#ifdef MS_WIN32
+ pathlen = strlen(path);
+ /* the library call can blow up if the file name is too long! */
+ if (pathlen > MAX_PATH) {
+ errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+ return posix_error();
+ }
+
+ if ((pathlen > 0) && (path[pathlen-1] == '\\' || path[pathlen-1] == '/')) {
+ /* exception for drive root */
+ if (!((pathlen == 3) &&
+ (path[1] == ':') &&
+ (path[2] == '\\' || path[2] == '/')))
+ {
+ strncpy(pathcopy, path, pathlen);
+ pathcopy[pathlen-1] = '\0'; /* nuke the trailing backslash */
+ path = pathcopy;
+ }
+ }
+#endif /* MS_WIN32 */
+
Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
res = (*statfunc)(path, &st);
Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS