Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Definitely a bug. The path search should silently skip directories it can't access.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 7:05 AM R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > R. David Murray added the comment: > > So, two interesting questions: does this in fact match the behavior of > os._execvpe, and does it match the behavior of the shell? The latter would > appear to be false, and could arguably be claimed to be a bug. If we agree > that it is, we need to learn what the behavior of the shell is in a bunch > of corner cases (only inaccessible directories on path, only match is > accessible but not executable, etc). > > If this is a bug I'd guess it applies to all supported python versions. > > Note that it should be possible to reproduce this using a single user, so > I've changed the title accordingly. > > ---------- > nosy: +gps > title: PermissionError in subprocess.check_output() when running as a > different user (not login shell) -> PermissionError in > subprocess.check_output() when an inaccessible directory on the path > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue25481> > _______________________________________ > ---------- nosy: +gregory.p.smith _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25481> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
