From: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:42:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-38453: Resolve test directories before chdir to them (GH-16723)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a1~181
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d83fc2702951f56a7339aa95d62414ed6e0fb40d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-38453: Resolve test directories before chdir to them (GH-16723)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index d593fc18d96e..0f294c5b0f45 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ def change_cwd(path, quiet=False):
     """
     saved_dir = os.getcwd()
     try:
-        os.chdir(path)
+        os.chdir(os.path.realpath(path))
     except OSError as exc:
         if not quiet:
             raise