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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_startfile.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_startfile.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_startfile.py b/Lib/test/test_startfile.py index ae9aeb9b6c..43abf9b7e1 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_startfile.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_startfile.py @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ # # A possible improvement would be to have empty.vbs do something that # we can detect here, to make sure that not only the os.startfile() -# call succeeded, but also the the script actually has run. +# call succeeded, but also the script actually has run. import unittest from test import support @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase): self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs") def test_empty(self): - # Switch to an existing, but safe, working directory to let the - # cleanup code do its thing without permission errors. - with support.temp_cwd(path=path.dirname(sys.executable)): + # We need to make sure the child process starts in a directory + # we're not about to delete. If we're running under -j, that + # means the test harness provided directory isn't a safe option. + # See http://bugs.python.org/issue15526 for more details + with support.change_cwd(path.dirname(sys.executable)): empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs") startfile(empty) startfile(empty, "open") |