commit ebed653be563f2e16c384d9d3b235ad2ecb11566 Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@torproject.org> Date: Wed Jun 6 08:47:54 2012 -0700 Skipping non-regular files when the reader crawls When the reader encounters block devices it can get stuck, causing the integ test for stop() to fail. Caught by nickm. --- stem/descriptor/reader.py | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/stem/descriptor/reader.py b/stem/descriptor/reader.py index acc9f8f..51eb46c 100644 --- a/stem/descriptor/reader.py +++ b/stem/descriptor/reader.py @@ -386,6 +386,11 @@ class DescriptorReader: self._notify_skip_listeners(target, AlreadyRead(last_modified, last_used)) return + # Block devices and such are never descriptors, and can cause us to block + # for quite a while so skipping anything that isn't a regular file. + + if not os.path.isfile(target): return + # The mimetypes module only checks the file extension. To actually # check the content (like the 'file' command) we'd need something like # pymagic (https://github.com/cloudburst/pymagic).