Re: kern/41057: creating a file on tmpfs can work strangely

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41057; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/41057: creating a file on tmpfs can work strangely
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 20:55:15 +0200

 On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, apb%cequrux.com@localhost wrote:
 >     open(name, "w").write("stuff")
 >     try:
 >      assert os.path.exists(name)
 >      os.remove(name)
 >      assert not os.path.exists(name)
 >     except KeyboardInterrupt:
 >      raise
 >     except:
 >      pass
 
 That "pass" statement will make it carry on without reporting a problem
 after an error.  Delte the "except: pass" lines to make it abort when
 there's a failure.