From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:09:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: only test for named pipe when os.stat doesn't raise #6209
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1020
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a663a373b2f866d77155f67de8c054b352890238;p=python

only test for named pipe when os.stat doesn't raise #6209
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diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index c46ec47fd3..a689256f15 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -58,9 +58,10 @@ def copyfile(src, dst):
         except OSError:
             # File most likely does not exist
             pass
-        # XXX What about other special files? (sockets, devices...)
-        if stat.S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode):
-            raise SpecialFileError("`%s` is a named pipe" % fn)
+        else:
+            # XXX What about other special files? (sockets, devices...)
+            if stat.S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode):
+                raise SpecialFileError("`%s` is a named pipe" % fn)
     try:
         fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
         fdst = open(dst, 'wb')