testsuite: Work around #17483wip/fix-windows-again

msys2 Python's wrapper for stat (called by Path.exists()) appears to
fail randomly with errno=0. Work around this by retrying 10 times in the
event that this happens.

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/testsuite/driver/testglobals.py b/testsuite/driver/testglobals.py
index c39ca7a8c9..a2d79391db 100644
--- a/testsuite/driver/testglobals.py
+++ b/testsuite/driver/testglobals.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 
 from my_typing import *
-from pathlib import Path
+from testutil import Path
 from perf_notes import MetricChange, PerfStat, Baseline, MetricOracles
 from datetime import datetime
 
diff --git a/testsuite/driver/testlib.py b/testsuite/driver/testlib.py
index 79d504a845..849996d5f4 100644
--- a/testsuite/driver/testlib.py
+++ b/testsuite/driver/testlib.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ import copy
 import glob
 import sys
 from math import ceil, trunc
-from pathlib import Path, PurePath
+from pathlib import PurePath
+from testutil import Path
 import collections
 import subprocess
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ if config.use_threads:
 global wantToStop
 wantToStop = False
 
+
 # I have no idea what the type of this is
 global thisdir_settings
 thisdir_settings = None # type: ignore
diff --git a/testsuite/driver/testutil.py b/testsuite/driver/testutil.py
index 071b641b7f..5509acff73 100644
--- a/testsuite/driver/testutil.py
+++ b/testsuite/driver/testutil.py
@@ -2,12 +2,29 @@ import os
 import platform
 import subprocess
 import shutil
-from pathlib import Path, PurePath
+from pathlib import PurePath, Path
 
 import threading
 
 from my_typing import *
 
+# Workaround for #17483. msys2 Python's wrapper for stat (called by
+# Path.exists()) appears to fail randomly with errno=0. Work around this by
+# retrying 10 times in the event that this happens.
+if os.name == 'nt':
+    # Oh the horror...
+    def new_stat(self):
+        for i in range(10):
+            try:
+                result = new_stat.stat(self)
+                return result
+            except OSError as e:
+                if e.errno != 0:
+                    raise e
+
+    new_stat.stat = Path.stat # type: ignore
+    Path.stat = new_stat # type: ignore
+
 PassFail = NamedTuple('PassFail',
                       [('passFail', str),
                        ('reason', str),