Bugs item #768419, was opened at 2003-07-09 14:38
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Category: Python Library
Group: Platform-specific
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Erik Demaine (edemaine)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Subtle bug in os.path.realpath on Cygwin
Initial Comment:
Cygwin allows mounting directories within other mount
points. This can cause os.path.realpath to expand some
symlinks that it shouldn't. For example:
$ cd /
$ mkdir X
$ mkdir X/Y
$ ln -s X Z
$ mount C:/ /Z/Y
$ ls Z/Y
[...contents of C:\...]
$ ls X/Y
[empty directory]
$ python -c "import os; print os.path.realpath('Z/Y')"
/X/Y
[bad because /X/Y is empty yet the original Z/Y has files]
In Cygwin, the correct answer would be either 'C:\' or
'/cygdrive/c/'.
Conceivably this problem can happen in UNIces other
than Cygwin. It would be rather annoying to fix,
because it would require looking at the mount table.
But I thought I would mention it anyway...
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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-03-03 10:52
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Closing as suggested.
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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2005-01-31 00:57
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I agree with Sjoerd - this is a Cygwin bug, not a Python one.
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Comment By: Sjoerd Mullender (sjoerd)
Date: 2003-07-09 15:33
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I'd think this is rather a Cygwin bug than a Python bug.
Before the mount, /X/Y and /Z/Y refer to the same directory,
and on Unix they have the same device/inode combination.
And that combination is the all-important factor when doing
a mount on that directory.
If you do this on Unix (I used an NFS mount instead of the
mount shown in the report), both /X/Y and /Z/Y contain the
mounted directory.
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