New submission from Matt Johnston <m...@ucc.asn.au>:
When opening mailboxes the module checks for errno.EACCES. This doesn't help if
the location is mounted read-only. Something like the following (against Python
2.6) would fix it, there are a few other checks in mailbox.py for EACCES too.
--- mailbox.py.orig 2011-02-24 15:02:22.000000000 +0800
+++ mailbox.py 2011-02-24 15:02:05.000000000 +0800
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ class _singlefileMailbox(Mailbox):
f = open(self._path, 'wb+')
else:
raise NoSuchMailboxError(self._path)
- elif e.errno == errno.EACCES:
+ elif e.errno == errno.EACCES or e.errno == errno.EROFS:
f = open(self._path, 'rb')
else:
raise
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 129252
nosy: matt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: mailbox should test for errno.EROFS
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3
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