Merge: #2466: ismount now recognizes mount points user can't access.

Lib/posixpath.py

@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ def ismount(path):
         parent = join(path, b'..')
     else:
         parent = join(path, '..')
+    parent = realpath(parent)
     try:
         s2 = os.lstat(parent)
     except OSError:

Lib/test/test_posixpath.py

@@ -211,6 +211,28 @@ class PosixPathTest(unittest.TestCase):
         finally:
             os.lstat = save_lstat
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(posix is None, "Test requires posix module")
+    def test_ismount_directory_not_readable(self):
+        # issue #2466: Simulate ismount run on a directory that is not
+        # readable, which used to return False.
+        save_lstat = os.lstat
+        def fake_lstat(path):
+            st_ino = 0
+            st_dev = 0
+            if path.startswith(ABSTFN) and path != ABSTFN:
+                # ismount tries to read something inside the ABSTFN directory;
+                # simulate this being forbidden (no read permission).
+                raise OSError("Fake [Errno 13] Permission denied")
+            if path == ABSTFN:
+                st_dev = 1
+                st_ino = 1
+            return posix.stat_result((0, st_ino, st_dev, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
+        try:
+            os.lstat = fake_lstat
+            self.assertIs(posixpath.ismount(ABSTFN), True)
+        finally:
+            os.lstat = save_lstat
+
     def test_expanduser(self):
         self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser("foo"), "foo")
         self.assertEqual(posixpath.expanduser(b"foo"), b"foo")

Misc/ACKS

@@ -1273,6 +1273,7 @@ Guido van Rossum
 Just van Rossum
 Hugo van Rossum
 Saskia van Rossum
+Robin Roth
 Clement Rouault
 Donald Wallace Rouse II
 Liam Routt

Misc/NEWS

@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
+  the user does not have permission to access.
+
 - Issue #25958: Support "anti-registration" of special methods from
   various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__.  All these (and
   several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the