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-rw-r--r--Lib/posixpath.py4
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 6d4a9e2111..ee763ad254 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ def samestat(s1, s2):
def ismount(path):
"""Test whether a path is a mount point"""
try:
- s1 = os.stat(path)
- s2 = os.stat(join(path, '..'))
+ s1 = os.lstat(path)
+ s2 = os.lstat(join(path, '..'))
except os.error:
return False # It doesn't exist -- so not a mount point :-)
dev1 = s1.st_dev
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 66a60d75fe..8100c77199 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ Core and builtins
Library
-------
+- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
+
- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain