From 12f03ccece461264acbddea8c9db9a85614483be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:22:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint
 is a mountpoint.

---
 Lib/posixpath.py | 4 ++--
 Misc/NEWS        | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index b396f0ace5e..515b0ae0d0b 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ def samestat(s1, s2):
 def ismount(path):
     """Test whether a path is a mount point"""
     try:
-        s1 = os.stat(path)
-        s2 = os.stat(join(path, '..'))
+        s1 = os.lstat(path)
+        s2 = os.lstat(join(path, '..'))
     except os.error:
         return False # It doesn't exist -- so not a mount point :-)
     dev1 = s1.st_dev
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 67af91e8028..167bedc5d44 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
+
 - Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
   unicode characters.