Merge pull request #1 from boegel/read-only-copy2

implement test for `copy_file` to copy read-only file with extended attributes

easybuild/tools/filetools.py

@@ -2443,11 +2443,11 @@ def copy_file(path, target_path, force_in_dry_run=False):
                         # see https://bugs.python.org/issue24538
                         shutil.copy2(path, target_path)
                         _log.info("%s copied to %s", path, target_path)
+                    # catch the more general OSError instead of PermissionError,
+                    # since Python 2.7 doesn't support PermissionError
                     except OSError as err:
-                        # catch the more general OSError instead of PermissionError, since python2 doesn't support
-                        # PermissionError
-                        if not os.stat(path).st_mode & stat.S_IWUSR:
-                            # failure not due to read-only file
+                        # if file is writable (not read-only), then we give up since it's not a simple permission error
+                        if os.path.exists(target_path) and os.stat(target_path).st_mode & stat.S_IWUSR:
                             raise EasyBuildError("Failed to copy file %s to %s: %s", path, target_path, err)
 
                         pyver = LooseVersion(platform.python_version())

test/framework/filetools.py

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 @author: Maxime Boissonneault (Compute Canada, Universite Laval)
 """
 import datetime
+import filecmp
 import glob
 import logging
 import os
@@ -51,6 +52,8 @@
 from easybuild.tools.config import IGNORE, ERROR, build_option, update_build_option
 from easybuild.tools.multidiff import multidiff
 from easybuild.tools.py2vs3 import StringIO, std_urllib
+from easybuild.tools.run import run_cmd
+from easybuild.tools.systemtools import LINUX, get_os_type
 
 
 class FileToolsTest(EnhancedTestCase):
@@ -1912,6 +1915,47 @@ def test_copy_file(self):
         # However, if we add 'force_in_dry_run=True' it should throw an exception
         self.assertErrorRegex(EasyBuildError, "Could not copy *", ft.copy_file, src, target, force_in_dry_run=True)
 
+    def test_copy_file_xattr(self):
+        """Test copying a file with extended attributes using copy_file."""
+        # test copying a read-only files with extended attributes set
+        # first, create a special file with extended attributes
+        special_file = os.path.join(self.test_prefix, 'special.txt')
+        ft.write_file(special_file, 'special')
+        # make read-only, and set extended attributes
+        attr = ft.which('attr')
+        xattr = ft.which('xattr')
+        # try to attr (Linux) or xattr (macOS) to set extended attributes foo=bar
+        cmd = None
+        if attr:
+            cmd = "attr -s foo -V bar %s" % special_file
+        elif xattr:
+            cmd = "xattr -w foo bar %s" % special_file
+
+        if cmd:
+            (_, ec) = run_cmd(cmd, simple=False, log_all=False, log_ok=False)
+
+            # need to make file read-only after setting extended attribute
+            ft.adjust_permissions(special_file, stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IWGRP | stat.S_IWOTH, add=False)
+
+            # only proceed if setting extended attribute worked
+            if ec == 0:
+                target = os.path.join(self.test_prefix, 'copy.txt')
+                ft.copy_file(special_file, target)
+                self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(target))
+                self.assertTrue(filecmp.cmp(special_file, target, shallow=False))
+
+                # only verify wheter extended attributes were also copied on Linux,
+                # since shutil.copy2 doesn't copy them on macOS;
+                # see warning at https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html
+                if get_os_type() == LINUX:
+                    if attr:
+                        cmd = "attr -g foo %s" % target
+                    else:
+                        cmd = "xattr -l %s" % target
+                    (out, ec) = run_cmd(cmd, simple=False, log_all=False, log_ok=False)
+                    self.assertEqual(ec, 0)
+                    self.assertTrue(out.endswith('\nbar\n'))
+
     def test_copy_files(self):
         """Test copy_files function."""
         test_ecs = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'easyconfigs', 'test_ecs')