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+import os
+import resource
+
+from test_support import TESTFN
+
+# This test is checking a few specific problem spots. RLIMIT_FSIZE
+# should be RLIM_INFINITY, which will be a really big number on a
+# platform with large file support. On these platforms, we need to
+# test that the get/setrlimit functions properly convert the number to
+# a C long long and that the conversion doesn't raise an error.
+
+try:
+ cur, max = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE)
+except AttributeError:
+ pass
+else:
+ print resource.RLIM_INFINITY == max
+ resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (cur, max))
+
+# Now check to see what happens when the RLIMIT_FSIZE is small. Some
+# versions of Python were terminated by an uncaught SIGXFSZ, but
+# pythonrun.c has been fixed to ignore that exception. If so, the
+# write() should return EFBIG when the limit is exceeded.
+
+try:
+ resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (1024, max))
+ f = open(TESTFN, "wb")
+ f.write("X" * 1024)
+ try:
+ f.write("Y")
+ f.flush()
+ except IOError:
+ pass
+ f.close()
+ os.unlink(TESTFN)
+finally:
+ resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (cur, max))
+
+# And be sure that setrlimit is checking for really large values
+too_big = 10L**50
+try:
+ resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (too_big, max))
+except OverflowError:
+ pass
+try:
+ resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (max, too_big))
+except OverflowError:
+ pass