commit 45b47166af00edc4e59c46548c2e52672042b9e3 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Mon Sep 12 08:27:01 2011 -0700
Accounting for os.path.join being stupid
The os.path.join function simply doesn't work if the second argument is an absolute path. That is stupid. Working around this by making its second argument relative. --- src/starter.py | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/starter.py b/src/starter.py index 6953cf4..e4e7096 100644 --- a/src/starter.py +++ b/src/starter.py @@ -228,7 +228,15 @@ def _torCtlConnect(controlAddr="127.0.0.1", controlPort=9051, passphrase=None, i # appends the path prefix if it's set if authType == TorCtl.TorCtl.AUTH_TYPE.COOKIE: pathPrefix = util.torTools.getConn().getPathPrefix() - authValue = os.path.join(pathPrefix, authValue) + + # The os.path.join function is kinda stupid. If given an absolute path + # with the second argument then it will swallow the prefix. Ie... + # os.path.join("/tmp", "/foo") => "/foo" + + pathSuffix = conn._cookiePath + if pathSuffix.startswith("/"): pathSuffix = pathSuffix[1:] + + conn._cookiePath = os.path.join(pathPrefix, pathSuffix)
conn.authenticate(authValue) return conn