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diff mercurial/util.py @ 13890:31eb145b50b6
util: move checklink() to posix.py and return False on Windows
Python added support for Windows 6.0 (Vista) symbolic links in 3.2 [1], but
even these symbolic links aren't what we can expect from a canonical
symbolic link, since creation requires SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege,
which typically only admins have.
So we can safely assume that we don't have symbolic links on Windows.
[1] http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/os.html#os.symlink
| author | Adrian Buehlmann <adrian@cadifra.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:55:52 +0200 |
| parents | 9a96efc4af8a |
| children | 93452579df9e |
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--- a/mercurial/util.py Tue Apr 05 16:55:47 2011 +0800 +++ b/mercurial/util.py Tue Apr 05 11:55:52 2011 +0200 @@ -683,18 +683,6 @@ return ''.join(result) -def checklink(path): - """check whether the given path is on a symlink-capable filesystem""" - # mktemp is not racy because symlink creation will fail if the - # file already exists - name = tempfile.mktemp(dir=path, prefix='hg-checklink-') - try: - os.symlink(".", name) - os.unlink(name) - return True - except (OSError, AttributeError): - return False - def checknlink(testfile): '''check whether hardlink count reporting works properly'''