From: Paul Eggleton Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 02:00:00 +0000 (+1300) Subject: oe-selftest: fix behaviour if oe-selftest.log is a dangling symlink X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=181f25ab570147931954417e03c4aaaf0d93ed7b;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core-contrib.git oe-selftest: fix behaviour if oe-selftest.log is a dangling symlink If you delete the log file that the oe-selftest.log symlink points to but not the symlink itself, because we were using os.path.exists() here the code assumed that the symlink didn't exist when in fact it still did. Use os.path.lexists() instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton --- diff --git a/scripts/oe-selftest b/scripts/oe-selftest index bfcea66f1c7..1f11a060893 100755 --- a/scripts/oe-selftest +++ b/scripts/oe-selftest @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ log_prefix = "oe-selftest-" + t.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") def logger_create(): log_file = log_prefix + ".log" - if os.path.exists("oe-selftest.log"): os.remove("oe-selftest.log") + if os.path.lexists("oe-selftest.log"): + os.remove("oe-selftest.log") os.symlink(log_file, "oe-selftest.log") log = logging.getLogger("selftest")