On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:18:39AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:46:54AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > filename = '/tmp/delete_me' > > > > This reminds me: we need a portable way to handle test-files :) > Yeah, I noticed that this test failed on Windows -- fixed now. > The test_support module exports TESTFN; there's also tempfile.mktemp() > which should generate temporary files on all platforms. > Is that enough? Well, there is one more issue, which we can't fix terribly easy: test_fcntl tries to flock() the file. flock() doesn't work on all filesystems (like NFS) :P If we cared a lot, we could try several alternatives (current dir, /tmp, /var/tmp) in the specific case of flock, but personally I don't want to bother, and real sysadmins (who should care about the test failure) are more likely to build Python on a local disk than in their NFS-mounted homedirectory. At least that's how we do it :-) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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