Message253550
Definitely a bug. The path search should silently skip directories it can't
access.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 7:05 AM R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:
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> R. David Murray added the comment:
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> So, two interesting questions: does this in fact match the behavior of
> os._execvpe, and does it match the behavior of the shell? The latter would
> appear to be false, and could arguably be claimed to be a bug. If we agree
> that it is, we need to learn what the behavior of the shell is in a bunch
> of corner cases (only inaccessible directories on path, only match is
> accessible but not executable, etc).
>
> If this is a bug I'd guess it applies to all supported python versions.
>
> Note that it should be possible to reproduce this using a single user, so
> I've changed the title accordingly.
>
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> nosy: +gps
> title: PermissionError in subprocess.check_output() when running as a
> different user (not login shell) -> PermissionError in
> subprocess.check_output() when an inaccessible directory on the path
>
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