From: Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 11:12:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #25717: Add comment explaining why errors are ignored
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a1~945^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49d3db92a4c3d9ddfa1babf82c9b20383725a24d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #25717: Add comment explaining why errors are ignored
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diff --git a/Modules/_io/fileio.c b/Modules/_io/fileio.c
index 5f88d58c45a4..dbd604a11689 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/fileio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/fileio.c
@@ -443,6 +443,9 @@ _io_FileIO___init___impl(fileio *self, PyObject *nameobj, const char *mode,
     fstat_result = _Py_fstat_noraise(self->fd, &fdfstat);
     Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
     if (fstat_result < 0) {
+        /* Tolerate fstat() errors other than EBADF.  See Issue #25717, where
+        an anonymous file on a Virtual Box shared folder filesystem would
+        raise ENOENT. */
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
         if (GetLastError() == ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE) {
             PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(0);