From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:22:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.2c1~92
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12f03ccece461264acbddea8c9db9a85614483be;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
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diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index b396f0ace5ec..515b0ae0d0b9 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 67af91e80284..167bedc5d44e 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.