From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:29:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: create_message():  When os.link() doesn't exist, make a copy of the msg
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~1707
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6626c1f183e537e23cde9af84d4c7f9e235ef1b7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

create_message():  When os.link() doesn't exist, make a copy of the msg
instead.  Allows this test to finish on Windows again.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py b/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
index 98584593cf4c..b9887ca7e7dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ class MaildirTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self._msgfiles.append(tmpname)
         fp.write(DUMMY_MESSAGE)
         fp.close()
-        os.link(tmpname, newname)
+        if hasattr(os, "link"):
+            os.link(tmpname, newname)
+        else:
+            fp = open(newname, "w")
+            fp.write(DUMMY_MESSAGE)
+            fp.close()
         self._msgfiles.append(newname)
 
     def test_empty_maildir(self):