test_subprocess fails on SuSE 10

[dvadasz]

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[dvadasz]

I compiled Python 2.5.1 on SuSE 10 and ran "make test", which reported
test_subprocess.py to fail on lines 537 and 579 with "permission
denied".

After a short investigation it looks the problem is that in SuSE 10 the
shell (bash) rejects to execute scripts residing in the /tmp directory
even if the file permissions would allow that.

An easy way of fixing this could be to place the shell script
statically in the same directory as test_subprocess.py instead of
creating it on-the-fly in /tmp.

[tiran]

Please try this:

$ mkdir -p ~/tmp
$ TMP=~/tmp make test

[dvadasz]

When I say:

$ mkdir -p ~/tmp
$ TMP=3D~/tmp python Lib/tests/test=5Fsubprocess.py

the test is passed.

However with

$ TMP=3D~/tmp make test

the test still fails and the ~/tmp directory is removed during the test
run.

Regards
Denes Vadasz

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[bpo-1412] test_subprocess fails on SuSE 10

Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org>
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Christian Heimes added the comment:

Please try this:

$ mkdir -p ~/tmp
$ TMP=~/tmp make test

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[tiran]

I've fixed a bug in py3k and 2.6 where a test in test_shutil has removed
an empty TMP directory. I regard the issue as a minor inconvenience. We
can't work around every edge case.