bpo-38894: Fix pathlib.Path.glob in the presence of symlinks and insufficient permissions (GH-18815)
Co-authored-by: Matt Wozniski <mwozniski@bloomberg.net>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index a50dce0..5b362a0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -1595,6 +1595,42 @@
self.assertEqual(set(p.glob("dirA/../file*")), { P(BASE, "dirA/../fileA") })
self.assertEqual(set(p.glob("../xyzzy")), set())
+ @support.skip_unless_symlink
+ def test_glob_permissions(self):
+ # See bpo-38894
+ P = self.cls
+ base = P(BASE) / 'permissions'
+ base.mkdir()
+
+ file1 = base / "file1"
+ file1.touch()
+ file2 = base / "file2"
+ file2.touch()
+
+ subdir = base / "subdir"
+
+ file3 = base / "file3"
+ file3.symlink_to(subdir / "other")
+
+ # Patching is needed to avoid relying on the filesystem
+ # to return the order of the files as the error will not
+ # happen if the symlink is the last item.
+
+ with mock.patch("os.scandir") as scandir:
+ scandir.return_value = sorted(os.scandir(base))
+ self.assertEqual(len(set(base.glob("*"))), 3)
+
+ subdir.mkdir()
+
+ with mock.patch("os.scandir") as scandir:
+ scandir.return_value = sorted(os.scandir(base))
+ self.assertEqual(len(set(base.glob("*"))), 4)
+
+ subdir.chmod(000)
+
+ with mock.patch("os.scandir") as scandir:
+ scandir.return_value = sorted(os.scandir(base))
+ self.assertEqual(len(set(base.glob("*"))), 4)
def _check_resolve(self, p, expected, strict=True):
q = p.resolve(strict)