Larry Hastings added the comment:
I think you're right. As Antoine pointed out in irc, for POSIX platforms,
modules in os are almost exclusively atomic. This is a useful (if
undocumented) feature from a security viewpoint, and we should not break it
lightly.
Closing as wontfix. If someone
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
I don't like this idea. Normally the system calls wrapped by the os module are
fairly atomic. Here you're introducing the possibility for potentially nasty
race conditions and exploits.
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nosy: +neologix
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Hynek Schlawack added the comment:
It also passes OS X.
There are no patch specific tests though. And alas, I don't have any platform
at hand that would benefit from these additions. :(
The idea sounds good to me and the code LGTM though. However I can't really say
much as I couldn't actuall
New submission from Larry Hastings :
Serhiy Storchaka suggested (in private email, not on tracker or python-dev):
why not make follow_symlinks and effective_ids failover where possible?
Let's take the example of effective_ids first, that's simpler. Let's say the
user calls
os.access("x", os
