Bugs item #1092701, was opened at 2004-12-29 15:30 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by effbot You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1092701&group_id=5470
Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None >Priority: 3 Submitted By: Joshua Weage (jpweage) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: os.remove fails on win32 with read-only file Initial Comment: On Windows XP SP2 and Python 2.3.3 or 2.4 a call to os.remove returns Errno 13 permission denied on a read-only file. On linux, python will delete a read-only file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot) Date: 2005-02-14 12:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=38376 This is a platform issue; Windows associates delete privileges with the file, Unix with the directory. I doubt it's a good idea to "fix" Python's remove by making it incompatible with the C library's implementation. (on the C level, unlink() is the same thing as remove(), btw). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Robert Brewer (aminusfu) Date: 2005-01-01 10:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=967320 Yup. I can reproduce that on Win2k. Seems posixmodule.c uses _unlink, _wunlink, which are documented at MS as failing on readonly: "Each of these functions returns 0 if successful. Otherwise, the function returns –1 and sets errno to EACCES, which means the path specifies a read-only file, or to ENOENT, which means the file or path is not found or the path specified a directory." Seems others have "fixed" it by just changing the mode and trying again: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01209.html https://www.cvshome.org/cyclic/cvs/unoff-watcom.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1092701&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
